If you are using OpenCV and tesseract, you might have a look at Scene Text Detection in OpenCV 3. It's in the text module within OpenCV_contrib [0]. There are

If you are using OpenCV and tesseract, you might have a look at Scene Text Detection in OpenCV 3. It's in the text module within OpenCV_contrib [0]. There are samples here [1] and here [2] to get you started. The paper is here: [3] --- [0] http://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/modules/text/doc/erfilter.html http://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/modules/text/doc/erfilter.ht... [1] https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/blob/master/modules/text/samples/textdetection.cpp https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/blob/master/modules... [2] https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/blob/master/modules/text/samples/end_to_end_recognition.cpp https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/blob/master/modules... [3] http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~neumalu1/neumann-cvpr2012.pdf http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~neumalu1/neumann-cvpr2012.pdf