How to segment Text from binary image

Hi, I have a binary image. I want to extract text (subtitles segmentation). Can any one give me an idea how to segment this text. There are other objects in the image too. so how to deal with this? what criteria i apply so that i segment only the text. Many thanks.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try the OCR capability in the Computer Vision System Toolbox

http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/ocr.html#bt548t1-2_1

http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/examples/automatically-detect-and-recognize-text-in-natural-images.html