how to extract each characters from a image?with using this code - matlab

Question

i have to extract each characters from a image here i am uploading the code it is segmenting the horizontal lines but not able to segment the each characters along with the horizontal line segmentation loop. some1 please help to correct the code
this is the previous code:
%%horizontal histogram
H = sum(rotatedImage, 2);
darkPixels = H < 100; % Threshold
% label
[labeledRegions, numberOfRegions] = bwlabel(darkPixels);
fprintf('Number of regions = %d\n', numberOfRegions);
% Find centroids
measurements = regionprops(labeledRegions, 'Centroid');
% Get them into an array
allCentroids = [measurements.Centroid];
xCentroids = int32(allCentroids(1:2:end));
yCentroids = int32(allCentroids(2:2:end));
% Now you can just crop out some line of text you're interested in, into a separate image:
hold off;
plotLocation = 8;
for band = 1 : numberOfRegions-1
row1 = yCentroids(band);
row2 = yCentroids(band+1);
thisLine = rotatedImage(row1 : row2, :);
subplot(7, 2, plotLocation)
imshow(thisLine, [])
%% Let's compute and display the histogram.
verticalProjection = sum(thisLine, 2);
set(gcf, 'NumberTitle', 'Off')
t = verticalProjection;
t(t==0) = inf;
mayukh=min(t);
% 0 where there is background, 1 where there are letters
letterLocations = verticalProjection > mayukh;
% Find Rising and falling edges
d = diff(letterLocations);
startingRows = find(d>0);
endingRows = find(d<0);
% Extract each region
y=1;
for k = 1 : length(startingRows)
% Get sub image of just one character...
subImage = thisLine(:, startingRows(k):endingRows(k));
[L,num] = bwlabel(subImage);
for z= 1 : num
bw= ismember( L, z);
% Construct filename for this particular image.
baseFileName = sprintf('templates %d.png', y);
y=y+1;
% Prepend the folder to make the full file name.
fullFileName = fullfile('C:\Users\Omm\Downloads\', baseFileName);
% Do the write to disk.
imwrite(bw, fullFileName);
pause(2);
imshow(bw);
pause(5)
end;
y=y+2;
end;
plotLocation = plotLocation + 2;
end
but not segmenting the whole lines

Answer 1

Why don't you simply use regionprops with 'Image' property?
img = imread('http://i.stack.imgur.com/zpYa5.png'); %// read the image
bw = img(:,:,1) > 128; %// conver to mask
Use some minor morphological operations to handle spurious pixels
dbw = imdilate(bw, ones(3));
lb = bwlabel(dbw).*bw; %// label each character as a connected component
Now you can use regionprops to get each image
st = regionprops( lb, 'Image' );
Visualize the results
figure;
for ii=1:numel(st),
subplot(4,5,ii);
imshow(st(ii).Image,'border','tight');
title(num2str(ii));
end