Create an image of a given text character

I'm wondering if anyone knows of an easy programmatic way in MATLAB to create images of a given text character.The image below of the number three, I created by cropping and resizing a screenshot, which involved a fair amount of manual work, and I'm looking for a more automated way.

I have to believe that there is a ready-to-go way to do this. A tool like that would have obvious applications in template matching and the testing of character recognition algorithms.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

There's an insertText function in the Computer Vision System Toolbox. Do you have that?

Alternatively, use the text() function to create the text in the overlay, then use export_fig to save the axes as an image.

[Matt J]

Thanks. I suppose that is the way to go, though I was hoping there might be a way that spares me the effort of setting up the overlay. It requires positioning/sizing of both the text and the background pixel grid...