GitHub repositories on the subject of TEXT EXTRACTION from natural or document images.

A curated list of resources dedicated to scene text localization and recognition

• https://github.com/chongyangtao/Awesome-Scene-Text-Recognition

Robust Text Detection implementation based on Chen, Huizhong, et al.

Language: cpp(xcode)

Paper: "Robust Text Detection in Natural Images with Edge-Enhanced Maximally Stable Extremal Regions." Image Processing (ICIP), 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2011. [pdf]

• https://github.com/subokita/Robust-Text-Detection

Text Detection System with MSER , SWT(Stroke Width Transform) and Text Verification(FFT and PCA)

Paper: "Robust Text Detection in Natural Images with Edge-Enhanced Maximally Stable Extremal Regions." Image Processing (ICIP), 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2011. [pdf]

Language: cpp(g++)

• https://github.com/yestinsong/Text-Detection

This code is the implementation of the method proposed in the paper.

Language: cpp

Paper: Lluís Gómez and Dimosthenis Karatzas, "Multi-script Text Extraction from Natural Scenes", Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013 12th International Conference on. [pdf]

• https://github.com/lluisgomez/text_extraction

A Keras/Theano implementation of "Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks" by M Jaderberg et.al.

Language: python

Framework: Keras, Theano

Paper: Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman, "Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks" [pdf]

• https://github.com/mathDR/reading-text-in-the-wild

Adapts a neural net for use as a pill imprint character detector.

Language: matlab

Paper: T. Wang, D. Wu, A. Coates, A. Ng, "End-to-End Text Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks", in ICPR 2012. [pdf]

• https://github.com/roseperrone/character-detector

The first open-source project that detects the font of a text in a image.

Language: javascript

Library: Tesseract, Jimp

• https://github.com/Sirvasile/Typefont

Text Detection on Android Devices

Language: cpp

Video: Literate PR2- short version

Paper: M. Zhu, K. Derpanis, K. Daniilidis, "Literate PR2: Text detection and recognition for indoor environment", Robotics Operating System (ROS), 2011.

• https://github.com/dreamdragon/text-detection

Detect text in natural images with SSD(Single Shot Detection)

Language: python

Framework: Caffe

Paper: Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Christian Szegedy, Scott Reed, Cheng-Yang Fu, Alexander C. Berg, "SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector" [pdf]

Library: SSD(Single Shot MultiBox Detector)

• https://github.com/chenxinpeng/SSD_scene_text_detection

Text-Detection-using-py-faster-rcnn-framework

Language: python

Framework: Caffe

• https://github.com/jugg1024/Text-Detection-with-FRCN

Text detection in natural scene images using the SWT(Stoke Width Transform).

Framework: Tesseract

Paper: "Detecting Text in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform", [pdf]

• https://github.com/dennis1088/gaze-text-detection

Language: python

Framework: Tesseract

Experiments in text localization and detection in raw manga scans. Mostly using OpenCV python API.

• https://github.com/johnoneil/MangaTextDetection

Text Detection using SWT(Stroke Width Transform)

Language: python

• https://github.com/developer-aj/TextDetection

A modified SSD model for text detection

• https://github.com/oyxhust/ssd-text_detection

Symmetry-based text detection

• https://github.com/stupidZZ/Symmetry_Text_Line_Detection

• https://github.com/PPilger/text-detection

Text detection

• https://github.com/hanguyen86/text_detection

Text detection with stroke width algorithm

• https://github.com/mfarre/textdetection

I implemented a fast scene text detection method with corner detection, saliency detection and a novel region growing...

• https://github.com/elvalord/Image-Text-Detection

This repo contains the text detection and image processing modules of the project.

• https://github.com/S-E-D-A/SEDA-CV-TextDetection

Using OpenCV to detect and correct skew in image of text documents.

• https://github.com/ReetiR/ImageSkewDetectionCorrectionText

Robust Text Detection using Stroke Width Transform

• https://github.com/Sujay-M/TextDetection

text detection in natural scene images

• https://github.com/qingyuetian/text

C++ (OpenCV) implementation of the Unsupervised Feature Learning algorithm of Adam Coates and Andrew Ng for Scene Text...

• https://github.com/lluisgomez/ufl_scene_text_recognition

Algorithm of scene text detection

• https://github.com/jugg1024/text_detector_RLS

Detecting Kannada in natural scene images.

• https://github.com/achalddave/Kannada-Text-Detection

• https://github.com/Wolfshark/TextDetection

Training data generator for text detection

• https://github.com/domoritz/label_generator

text detection in natural images use connected component

• https://github.com/skelking/text_detection_2

wavelet text_detection

• https://github.com/skelking/wavelet_transform

Text Detection by DCT energy localization

• https://github.com/lluisgomez/DCText

Work relating to the OCR wish-list item "figure out an algorithm that would separate images into sets with no handwri...

• https://github.com/idigbio-aocr/HandwritingDetection

Computer Vision class exercise 3

• https://github.com/alexanderb14/Fourier-text-line-detection

Based on https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/tree/master/modules/text

• https://github.com/jumzzz/Improved-Scene-to-Text-with-Single-Character-Detection

Text detection on scene image

• https://github.com/anh0001/scenetextdetect

Text Detection and Recognition in Video

• https://github.com/pxnguyen/videotext

• https://github.com/abroun/TextDetection

The project intended to allow a computer system to interpret a broadcast video and extract Hindi text from the video.

• https://github.com/kugaur/Hindi-Text-Detection-and-Recognition-in-Broadcast-Videos

An android based application that uses opencv to extract text from images.

• https://github.com/gauravkc/Android-Based-Text-Detection-App

• https://github.com/anagornyi/grasp_text_detection_app

Implementation of multioriented text detection in matlab

• https://github.com/navyakanu/MultiorientedSceneTextDetection

Implementation of the paper "Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learn...

• https://github.com/moritzschaefer/unsupervised-text-detection

Implementing text detection just for fun.

• https://github.com/greggvarona/textdetect

• https://github.com/artuntun/TextDetection

My text detection using tensorflow and skimage.

• https://github.com/HgN37/textDetection

Android App for Text Detection and Recognition

• https://github.com/adithya217/Textify

Text detection in natural scenes with multilingual text

• https://github.com/zarechenskiy/TextDetection

This code is the implementation of the method proposed in the paper “Multi-script text extraction from natural scenes...

• https://github.com/lluisgomez/text_extraction

A simple program to extract the text from an image before performing OCR

• https://github.com/jasonlfunk/ocr-text-extraction

Implementation of the method proposed in the papers " TextProposals: a Text-specific Selective Search Algorithm for W...

• https://github.com/lluisgomez/TextProposals

This is an experimental project to enhance Optical Character Recognition technique to recognize text from natural images

• https://github.com/mayurhalai/Text-Extraction-From-Image

MATLAB code to do text line extraction from document images

• https://github.com/luisarriaga/LineExtraction

Text extraction from natural scene image

• https://github.com/boussaffawalid/text_extraction

Extraction of text from the pages of Indian comic books

• https://github.com/manishkanadje/comic-book-text-extraction

To extract a text from image

• https://github.com/priyanjaligoel/TextExtraction

the text in valid picture,location the text .

• https://github.com/yinlinzi/Text_Image_Location

This is not intended o be a complete list.