Split text lines in scanned document

I am trying to find a way to break the split the lines of text in a scanned document that has been adaptive thresholded. Right now, I am storing the pixel values of the document as unsigned ints from 0 to 255, and I am taking the average of the pixels in each line, and I split the lines into ranges based on whether the average of the pixels values is larger than 250, and then I take the median of each range of lines for which this holds. However, this methods sometimes fails, as there can be black splotches on the image.

Install opencv for Python 3.3

Is OpenCV still not available for Python 3.3 and do I really have to downgrade to Python 2.7 to use it? I didn’t find much about it on the internet, only some posts from 2012 that OpenCV wasn’t yet ported to be used in Python 3.x. But now it’s 2014 and after trying to install the latest OpenCV 2.4.x and copying the cv2.pyd file to C:Program Files (x86)Python333Libsite-packages this still yields the error in Python IDLE: