Are "stroke width transform" and novel "bandlet-based edge detector" something IM could use for text detection in image?

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pipitas
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Are "stroke width transform" and novel "bandlet-based edge detector" something IM could use for text detection in image?

Post by pipitas »

Here is an interesting paper I came acrosss:

http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/2012/BMVC/pape ... per063.pdf

It discusses the use of SWT (stroke width transform) with a novel "bandlet-based edge detector" in order to localize text occurances within images.
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Re: Are "stroke width transform" and novel "bandlet-based edge detector" something IM could use for text detection in im

Post by snibgo »

One of the frequently-asked questions on these forums is, "How can I clean up images like this one so an OCR can read it?"

The answer is usually very dependant on the nature of the image. We have seen scans and photographs of books and newspapers, but also camera-phone photos of till receipts. The methods in that paper may provide a generic solution.
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