Single Characther Cursive Processing

Hello,

I'm researching on handwritten letter recognition using matlab. I have several pre-processed image that i took before, and i want to build a program that can automatically find the area of a character like below

from this,

into this

I've been searching for answers, but i only find cursive related question, which disccused how to extreact letters from words in an image. If anyone knows the solution, please let me know, thank you so much.

p.s. : i've attached one preprocessed image

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

info_struct = regionprops(imbinarize(YourImage), 'Area');
areas = [info_struct.Area];

This would give a separate area for each separate section. Separate sections could be due to having multiple characters in one image, or could be do to (for example) the dot being separate from the main stroke of a character

If you are certain that there is only one character in the image and you want to know the combined areas, then

area = nnz(imbinarize(YourImage))

[yoel y]

Thank you for the answer, and how can we view the selected area? i want to save the selected area image into an image that can be used later.

[Walter Roberson]

bw = imbinarize(YourImage);
info_struct = regionprops(bw, 'Area', 'Image');

info_struct(K).Area is now the area of the K'th section, and info_struct(K).Image is now a binary image, on for each pixel inside the region.

If you are sure you want to count all the regions together (for example count the dot of an i as part of the same image) then

bw = imbinarize(YourImage);
info_struct = regionprops(double(bw), 'Area', 'Image');

You can also instead

bw = imbinarize(YourImage);
area = nnz(bw);
maskv = any(bw,1);
lb = find(maskv,1,'first');
rb = find(maskv,1,'last');
maskh = any(bw,2);
tb = find(maskh,1,'first');
bb = find(maskh,1,'last');
Image = YourImage(tb:bb, lb:rb);

[yoel y]

Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it