Segmentation for connected characters

Question

How can I segment if the characters are connected? I just tried using watershed with distance transform (http://opencv-code.com/tutorials/count-and-segment-overlapping-objec

Answer 1

Not sure if I want to help you solve captchas, but one idea would be to use erosion. Depending on how many pixels you have to work with it might be able to sufficiently separate the characters without destroying them. This would likely be best used as a pre-processing step for some other segmentation algorithm.