Scene Text detection

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Charles Fernando

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Apr 25, 2016, 6:46:30 AM4/25/16

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Hi,

I m trying to build an application which will detect text from a scene in real time for my Bsc final year project. Does anyone know how get started with this. ??

Tom Morris

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Apr 25, 2016, 11:57:44 AM4/25/16

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On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:46:30 AM UTC-4, Charles Fernando wrote:

I m trying to build an application which will detect text from a scene in real time for my Bsc final year project. Does anyone know how get started with this. ??

The simplest approach would be to use Google's Vision API (still in beta, I think). There are also the resources listed at: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=detect+text+in+natural+scene

OpenCV has an implementation using Class-specific Extremal Regions http://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/modules/text/doc/erfilter.html

Pretty much anything that cites the original Microsoft Research paper on the Stroke Width Transform is probably relevant:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?safe=off&biw=1440&bih=899&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=1401853781188243977