Home How can I rotate connected components so that they are upright in Matlab?
 Currently I am working with a sudoku grid and I have the binary image. I am using Regionprops to get the area of the connected components and then turn the rest of the image black. After this I call the OCR method to try and read the sudoku numbers. The problem is that this only works if the sudoku grid in the image is straight and upright. If it is rotated even a little bit I am not able to pull the numbers. This is the code I have so far: % get grid connected parts conn_part = bwconncomp(im_binary); % blacken area outside stats = regionprops(conn_part,'Area'); im_out = im_binary; % Make mask im_out(vertcat(conn_part.PixelIdxList{[stats.Area] < 825 | [stats.Area] > 2500})) = 0; imagesc(im_out); title("Numbers pulled"); sudokuNum = ocr(im_out,'TextLayout','Block','CharacterSet','0123456789'); sudokuNum.Text;  Where im_binary is the binary image im_out is the output image stats is the object returned from regionprops containing the area of the connected components I know I can rotate the image before getting the OCR results by doing: im_out = imrotate(im_out, angle)  However I don't know what angle the grid is at since this is part of a function that loops through for multiple images. I looked into the regionprops method because there is an attribute 'Orientation' which I can pull from there but I don't understand how I would actually use it. It also states that regionprops will return a value between -90 and 90, but my image could be rotated by more than 90 degrees.