Author: Canjie Luo, Chongyu Liu
- 1.Datasets
- 2. Summary of End-to-end Scene Text Detection and Recognition Methods
- 3. Survey
- 4. OCR Service
- 5. References and codes
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SVT [15]：
- Introduction: There are 100 training images and 250 testing images downloaded from Google Street View of road-side scenes. The labelled text can be very challenging with a wide variety of fonts, orientations, and lighting conditions. A lexicon containing 50 words (SVT-50) is also provided for each image.
- Link: SVT-download
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ICDAR 2003(IC03) [16]：
- Introduction: The dataset contains a varied array of photos of the world that contain scene text. There are 251 testing images with 50 word lexicons (IC03-50) and a lexicon of all test groundtruth words (IC03-Full).
- Link: IC03-download
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ICDAR 2011(IC11) [17] :
- Introduction: The dataset is an extension to the dataset used for the text locating competitions of ICDAR 2003.It includes 485 natural images in total.
- Link: IC11-download
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ICDAR 2013(IC13) [18]：
- Introduction: The dataset consists of 229 training images and 233 testing images. Most text are horizontal. Three specific lexicons are provided, named as “Strong(S)”, “Weak(W)” and “Generic(G)”. “Strong(S)” lexicon provides 100 words per-image including all words that appear in the image. “Weak(W)” lexicon includes all words that appear in the entire test set. And “Generic(G)” lexicon is a 90k word vocabulary.
- Link: IC13-download
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ICDAR 2015(IC15) [19]：
- Introduction: The dataset includes 1000 training images and 500 testing images captured by Google glasses. The text in the scene is in arbitrary orientations. Similar to ICDAR 2013, it also provides “Strong(S)”, “Weak(W)” and “Generic(G)” lexicons.
- Link: IC15-download
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Total-Text [20]：
- Introduction: Except for the horizontal text and oriented text, Total-Text also consists of a lot of curved text. Total-Text contains 1255 training images and 300 test images. All images are annotated with polygons and transcriptions in word-level. A “Full” lexicon contains all words in test set is provided.
- Link: Total-Text-download
| Comparison of Datasets | |||||||||||||||||
| Datasets | Language | Image | Text instance | Text Shape | Annotation level | Lexicon | |||||||||||
| Total | Train | Test | Total | Train | Test | Horizontal | Arbitrary-Quadrilateral | Multi-oriented | Char | Word | Text-Line | 50 | 1k | Full | None | ||
| IC03 | English | 509 | 258 | 251 | 2266 | 1110 | 1156 | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| IC11 | English | 484 | 229 | 255 | 1564 | ～ | ～ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| IC13 | English | 462 | 229 | 233 | 1944 | 849 | 1095 | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| SVT | English | 350 | 100 | 250 | 725 | 211 | 514 | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| SVT-P | English | 238 | ～ | ～ | 639 | ～ | ～ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| IC15 | English | 1500 | 1000 | 500 | 17548 | 122318 | 5230 | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Total-Text | English | 1525 | 1225 | 300 | 9330 | ～ | ～ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Method | Model | Code | Detection | Recognition | Source | Time | Highlight |
| Wang et al. [1] | ✕ | Sliding windows and Random Ferns | Pictorial Structures | ICCV | 2011 | Word Re-scoring for NMS | |
| Wang et al. [2] | ✕ | CNN-based | Sliding windows for classification | ICPR | 2012 | CNN architecture | |
| Jaderberg et al. [3] | ✕ | CNN-based and saliency maps | CNN classifier | ECCV | 2014 | Data mining and annotation | |
| Alsharif et al. [4] | ✕ | CNN and hybrid HMM maxout models | Segmentation-based | ICLR | 2014 | Hybrid HMM maxout models | |
| Yao et al. [5] | ✕ | Random Forest | Component Linking and Word Partition | TIP | 2014 | (1) Detection and recognition features sharing. (2) Oriented-text. (3) A new dictionary search method | |
| Neumann et al. [6] | ✕ | Extremal Regions | Clustering algorithm to group characters | TPAMI | 2015 | Real-time performance(1.6s/image) | |
| Jaderberg et al. [7] | ✕ | Region proposal mechanism | Word-level classification | IJCV | 2016 | Trained only on data produced by a synthetic text generation engine, requiring no human labelled data | |
| Liao et al. [8] | TextBoxes | ✓ | SSD-based framework | CRNN | AAAI | 2017 | An end-to-end trainable fast scene text detector |
| Bŭsta et al. [9] | Deep TextSpotter | ✕ | Yolo v2 | CTC | ICCV | 2017 | Yolov2 + RPN, RNN + CTC. It is the first end-to-end trainable detection and recognition system with high speed. |
| Li et al. [10] | ✕ | Text Proposal Network | Attention | ICCV | 2017 | TPN + RNN encoder + attention-based RNN | |
| Sun et al. [22] | TextNet | ✕ | Scale-aware attention backbone and Perspective RoI Transform | Attention | ACCV | 2018 | Perspective RoI Transform for Irregular text recognition |
| Lyu et al. [11] | Mask TextSpotter | ✓ | Fast R-CNN with mask branch | Character segmentation | ECCV | 2018 | Precise text detection and recognition are acquired via semantic segmentation |
| He et al. [12] | ✓ | Text-Alignment Layer | Attention | CVPR | 2018 | Character attention mechanism: use character spatial information as explicit supervision | |
| Liu et al. [13] | FOTS | ✓ | EAST with RoIRotate | CTC | CVPR | 2018 | Little computation overhead compared to baseline text detection network (22.6fps) |
| Liao et al. [14] | TextBoxes++ | ✓ | SSD-based framework | CRNN | TIP | 2018 | Journal version of TextBoxes (multi-oriented scene text support) |
| Liao et al. [15] | Mask TextSpotter | ✓ | Mask R-CNN | Character segmentation + Spatial Attention Module | TPAMI | 2019 | Journal version of Mask TextSpotter(proposes Spatial Attention Module) |
| Xing et al. [23] | CharNet | ✓ | A character branch and a detection branch | Character level | ICCV | 2019 | Utilizing a character as basic element to overcome the main difficulty of joint optimization of text detection and RNN-based recognition |
| Feng et al. [24] | TextDragon | ✕ | Local box regression, center line segmentation and RoI Sliding | CTC | ICCV | 2019 | A new differentiable operator named RoISlide connect arbitrary shaped text detection and recognition |
| Qin et al. [25] | ✕ | Mask R-CNN with RoI masking | Attention | ICCV | 2019 | A simple yet effective RoI masking step to extract useful irregularly shaped text instance features | |
| Qiao et al. [26] | Text Perceptron | ✕ | Mask R-CNN with Order-aware Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Regressions | Attention | AAAI | 2020 | A novel Shape Transform Module to transform the feature regions into regular morphologies |
| Wang et al. [27] | ✕ | Oriented Rectangular Box Detector and Boundary Point Detector | Attention | AAAI | 2020 | A set of points on the boundary of each text instance represents arbitrary shapes | |
| Liu et al. [28] | ABCNet | ✓ | Bezier Curve Detection and BezierAlign | CTC | CVPR | 2020 | 10 times faster than re-cent state-of-the-art methods with a competitive scene text spotting accuracy |
| Method | Model | Source | Time | SVT | SVT-50 | IC03 | IC11 | IC13 | IC15 | Total-text | ||||||||||||||||
| End-to-end | Spotting | End-to-end | Spotting | None | Full | None | Full | |||||||||||||||||||
| 50 | Full | None | S | W | G | S | W | G | S | W | G | S | W | G | ||||||||||||
| Wang et al. [1] | ICCV | 2011 | ~ | ~ | 51 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ||
| Wang et al. [2] | ICPR | 2012 | 46 | ~ | 72 | 67 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Jaderberg et al. [3] | ECCV | 2014 | ~ | 56 | 80 | 75 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Alsharif et al. [4] | ICLR | 2014 | ~ | 48 | 77 | 70 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Yao et al. [5] | TIP | 2014 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 48.6 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |||
| Neumann et al. [6] | TPAMI | 2015 | 68.1 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 45.2 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 35 | 19.9 | 15.6 | 35 | 19.9 | 15.6 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ||
| Jaderberg et al. [7] | IJCV | 2016 | 53 | 76 | 90 | 86 | 78 | 76 | 76 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Liao et al. [8] | TextBoxes | AAAI | 2017 | 64 | 84 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 87 | 91 | 89 | 84 | 94 | 92 | 87 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 36.3 | 48.9 | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Bŭsta et al. [9] | Deep TextSpotter | ICCV | 2017 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 89 | 86 | 77 | 92 | 89 | 81 | 54 | 51 | 47 | 58 | 53 | 51 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 21.85 |
| Li et al. [10] | ICCV | 2017 | 66.18 | 84.91 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 87.7 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 91.08 | 89.8 | 84.6 | 94.2 | 92.4 | 88.2 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Sun et al. [22] | TextNet | ACCV | 2018 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 89.77 | 88.80 | 82.96 | 94.59 | 93.48 | 86.99 | 78.66 | 74.9 | 60.45 | 82.38 | 78.43 | 62.36 | 54.02 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Lyu et al. [11] | Mask TextSpotter | ECCV | 2018 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 92.2 | 91.1 | 86.5 | 92.5 | 92 | 88.2 | 79.3 | 73 | 62.4 | 79.3 | 74.5 | 64.2 | 52.9 | 71.8 | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| He et al. [12] | CVPR | 2018 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 91 | 89 | 86 | 93 | 92 | 87 | 82 | 77 | 63 | 85 | 80 | 65 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Liu et al. [13] | FOTS | CVPR | 2018 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 91.99 | 90.11 | 84.77 | 95.94 | 93.9 | 87.76 | 83.55 | 79.11 | 65.33 | 87.01 | 82.39 | 67.97 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Liao et al. [14] | TextBoxes++ | TIP | 2018 | 64 | 84 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 93 | 92 | 85 | 96 | 95 | 87 | 73.3 | 65.9 | 51.9 | 76.5 | 69 | 54.4 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Liao et al. [15] | Mask TextSpotter | TPAMI | 2019 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 93.3 | 91.3 | 88.2 | 92.7 | 91.7 | 87.7 | 83 | 77.7 | 73.5 | 82.4 | 78.1 | 73.6 | 65.3 | 77.4 | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Xing et al. [23] | CharNet | ICCV | 2019 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 85.05 | 81.25 | 71.08 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 69.2 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Feng et al. [24] | TextDragon | ICCV | 2019 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 82.54 | 78.34 | 65.15 | 86.22 | 81.62 | 68.03 | 48.8 | 74.8 | 39.7 | 72.4 | ~ |
| Qin et al. [25] | ICCV | 2019 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 85.51 | 81.91 | 69.94 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 70.7 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Qiao et al. [26] | Text Perceptron | AAAI | 2020 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 91.4 | 90.7 | 85.8 | 94.9 | 94 | 88.5 | 80.5 | 76.6 | 65.1 | 84.1 | 79.4 | 67.9 | 69.7 | 78.3 | 57 | ~ | ~ |
| Wang et al. [27] | AAAI | 2020 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 88.2 | 87.7 | 84.1 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 79.7 | 75.2 | 64.1 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 65 | 76.1 | ~ | ~ | 41.3 | |
| Liu et al. [28] | ABCNet | CVPR | 2020 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 69.5 | 78.4 | 45.2 | 74.1 | ~ |
[A] [TPAMI-2015] Ye Q, Doermann D. Text detection and recognition in imagery: A survey[J]. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2015, 37(7): 1480-1500. paper
[B] [Frontiers-Comput. Sci-2016] Zhu Y, Yao C, Bai X. Scene text detection and recognition: Recent advances and future trends[J]. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2016, 10(1): 19-36. paper
[C] [arXiv-2018] Long S, He X, Ya C. Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04256, 2018. paper
| OCR | API | Free |
|---|---|---|
| Tesseract OCR Engine | × | √ |
| Azure | √ | √ |
| ABBYY | √ | √ |
| OCR Space | √ | √ |
| SODA PDF OCR | √ | √ |
| Free Online OCR | √ | √ |
| Online OCR | √ | √ |
| Super Tools | √ | √ |
| Online Chinese Recognition | √ | √ |
| Calamari OCR | × | √ |
| Tencent OCR | √ | × |
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