How to segment an image containing text?

I have an image containing paragraph,how do i segment that paragraph into separate lines?? i mean the paragraph should be segmented into 6 lines of text.

Thank you

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See if this does what you want: http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/ocr.html#bt548t1-2_1. Otherwise, if your lines are aligned with the edges of the image, get the mean horizontally:

verticalProfile = mean(grayImage, 2);

Then threshold

inALineIndexes = verticalProfile < 128; % or whatever value works.

[Meghashree G]

Please look at this image..the handwritten paragraph should be segmented to lines of text,totally there are 6 lines constituting a paragraph,this should be segmented.how to do? Thank you

[Image Analyst]

The image doesn't come through - it pops up something asking for a login.

[Meghashree G]

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This is the image sir