Recently, handwritten text has gain much attention from research community. Word detection form handwritten text is inevitable to build very useful business applications. One such application is handwriting (word) detection from personalized messages on greeting cards. The message writing on greeting cards makes the experience personalized for the customers and they can convey their feelings in their own words. To reconstruct the personalized messages on greeting cards, word detection is required so that we do not restrict the text to lines rather can deal with the free handwritten text.