how to segment/crop words from a line in an image in matlab?

Hello, Im trying to segment/crop words from the line in an image.(this line is obtained by segmenting line from paragraph)

How do i achieve this?Please help me with the code. Here is the input image.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

[harjeet singh]

use this code

clear all
close all
clc

img=imread('line2.png');
img1=bwareaopen(~img,100);
se=strel('disk',7);
img2=imdilate(img1,se);

[lab,num]=bwlabel(img2);
figure(1)
for i=1:num
    [r,c]=find(lab==i);
    img4=img(:,min(c):max(c));
    subplot(4,4,i)
    imshow(img4)
end

[Meghashree G]

hello sir.. I tried your code for word segmentation for the attached image ..But its not working..Please tell me how to do it?

Thank you

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I answered this in your comment in the other discussion. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/67860-crop-an-image-per-words#comment_335177

I took your m-file there and fixed it. Your fixed code is attached.

Answer 3

[Akshay Raj]

i need to extarct word level in this image and need to store those segmented image in an folder .please hel me out to do this