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Text Detection from Scene and Born Images: How Good is Tesseract?

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Detection of texts from scene images has been an active research area from last couple of decades. The problem of the research becomes challenging due to several environmental clutters such as background complexities, poor resolution, arbitrary orientation of texts, and appearance of texts in multi-lingual scenario. Tesseract is a well-known OCR engine for document-level image analysis. However, to the best of our knowledge, implementation of Tesseract in text detection has not been reported yet. Therefore, this paper presents a fair assessment of the performance of Tesseract in text detection. Reported work is evaluated on multiple benchmark datasets, viz. ICDAR 2013 (born images), ICDAR 2013 (focused scene text), and ICDAR 2019-MLT to validate its performance and efficiency.

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  1. The Adabi Society High Madrasah, Angus, Hooghly, 712221, India

    Nadeem Anwar

  2. Department of Information Technology, Haldia Institute of Technology, ICARE Complex, Haldia, 721657, India

    Tauseef Khan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aliah University, Newtown Campus, Kolkata, 700160, India

    Tauseef Khan & Ayatullah Faruk Mollah

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  1. Arya College of Engineering & IT, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Aditya Kumar Singh Pundir

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    Neha Yadav

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, Rajasthan, India

    Harish Sharma

  4. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Anwar, N., Khan, T., Mollah, A.F. (2022). Text Detection from Scene and Born Images: How Good is Tesseract?. In: Pundir, A.K.S., Yadav, N., Sharma, H., Das, S. (eds) Recent Trends in Communication and Intelligent Systems. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1324-2_13

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