segment the characters in the image

How to segment the image into line, word, and character.

Answer 1

[KSSV]

I = imread('BW1.bmp') ;
I = ~I ;  
s = sum(I,2) ;
idx = find(s) ;

idx gives you the rows which have the characters.

Answer 2

[michael scheinfeild]

try use properties and take bounding boxes the seperete by witdh , maybe you need also erosion/dilation to separate https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/regionprops.html