text image segmentation(Text is in form of cursive handwritting)

hi

im in need to segment the cursive handwritten words into individual letters from an image.. plz any one help me with code.

code:-

clear all;

close all;

I = imread('plate.jpg');

BW = im2bw(I, 0.9);

BW = ~BW;

stats = regionprops(BW);

for index=1:length(stats)

if stats(index).Area > 200 && stats(index).BoundingBox(3)*stats(index).BoundingBox(4) < 30000

        x = ceil(stats(index).BoundingBox(1))
        y= ceil(stats(index).BoundingBox(2))
        widthX = floor(stats(index).BoundingBox(3)-1)
        widthY = floor(stats(index).BoundingBox(4)-1)
        subimage(index) = {BW(y:y+widthY,x:x+widthX,:)}; 
        figure, imshow(subimage{index})
        end
    end

I've tried this code but its segments the character where space occurs.. i'm need of code for cursive handwriting segmentation plz some one help me with code

[sreerag ibtl]

Assume that word is white and background zero. Find the vertical sum of bits(sum). Set a threshold value for the sum. At columns where there is pixels less than threshold value set the pixels in that col to zero. The connections are now broken. ps: Letters such as small n,m and u won't be well segmented if the image is of better clarity or not pre-processed well.This method is not suitable for cursive fonts with overlapping characters.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Find papers that tell you how to do this here: http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contentschar.html#OCR,%20Document%20Analysis%20and%20Character%20Recognition%20Systems