title: how to perform character segmentation in Matlab
body: <p>I have license plate image and I want to cut the numbers one by one.</p>
  
  <p>any one have simple idea how to perform it?</p>
  
  <p>after searching the web I found a way by doing the operation of horizontal and vertical smearing, but I really don't know what does it mean.</p>
  
  <p>any explanation would help</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>