Separate image of text into component character images

Question

I\'d like to separate an image of text into it\'s component characters, also as images. For example, using the sample below I\'d end up with 14 images.

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Answer 1

I've been playing around with ocropus recently, an open-source text analysis and ocr-preprocessing tool. As a part of its workflow, it also creates the images you want. Maybe this helps you, although no python magic is involved.