Segmentation of single or multiple touching handwritten numeral string using background and foreground analisis

I'm working on the final task, and I had difficulty to separate single or multiple handwriten Touching numeral string using background and foreground, I had reached the thinning stage, please help to guide segmentation in matlab work, thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

If they're not separated after thinning then they were also connected in your binary image. So you'll have to do some better filtering or thresholding. For example, these author's method looks pretty good: http://www.leptonica.com/binarization.html

Answer 2

[Beby]

filtering or thresholding was I doing, what I need is a way intersection or perform segmentation on the number of mutual connection....please help me..... i dont know what i must do...