Crop the given image into individual letters

hello, we are working on the project of automated handwriting analysis. At present we have achieved a line and word segmentation. I want to crop the individual letters of a cursive handwriting. Please guide me.

e.g., the word household should be individually cropped to each letter...

[Walter Roberson]

duplicates http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/260192-crop-an-image-per-letter

[sindhu c]

i think the word useful should be cropped/segmented as separate 6 letters as u s e f u l .

[Poornima Gokhale]

exactly sindhu.....please help me with the code

[Walter Roberson]

Go down to the 'Tags' section right below this and click on the word "cursive"