The invention discloses a license plate character segmentation method based on parts. The method includes extracting seven characters in a license plate area as the parts, dividing the characters into two categories of Chinese characters and letter/number characters according to the appearance characteristics of the parts for assembly of a license plate part model, utilizing a vertical edge detection and morphological processing method to determine a target candidate area, respectively detecting the Chinese characters and the letter/number characters in a license plate, filling the characters according to the character interval, analyzing the space position relation between the characters, verifying the license plate type, utilizing the detected character position and size to modify the target candidate area to acquire the license plate modified area, utilizing the license plate position and the license plate type to modify the character position in the reverse direction to accurately segment the license plate characters. The method has the advantages of being easy to achieve, good in robustness, capable of adapting to different illumination conditions, capable of segmenting the license plate under good illumination condition, capable of processing the noisy license plate and capable of being applied to license plate character segmentation under poor illumination condition or under the noisy condition.