how to find the width and height of text block

plz help me to find the width and height of a text block. m doing project on text detection using canny edge detector. as a post processing step, i need to perform false positive elimination,to remove unwanted image parts.

[Dishant Arora]

Do you mean individual letters by text block??

[Akshatha]

no its on word pls help me

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Answer 1

[Dishant Arora]

Call in regionprops and checkout for boundingbox.

Stats = regionprops(BW , 'BoundingBox');
[width , height] = Stats(ii).BoundingBox(3:4); % ii being index of your blob.