10. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of locating text rows comprises the steps of: (a) projecting the connected component boundaries onto a vertical or axis of the image; (b) generating a histogram which reflects the frequency of boundaries projected as a position along the vertical axis; (c) identifying the space separating text rows as points along the vertical axis of the image where minimums are present in the histogram generated in step (b).
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of locating text rows further comprises the step of smoothing the histogram prior to separating the text rows.