Scene text detection and recognition: The deep learning era

S Long, X He, C Yao - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2021 - Springer
With the rise and development of deep learning, computer vision has been tremendously
transformed and reshaped. As an important research area in computer vision, scene text …

Text recognition in the wild: A survey

X Chen, L **, Y Zhu, C Luo, T Wang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
The history of text can be traced back over thousands of years. Rich and precise semantic
information carried by text is important in a wide range of vision-based application …

Character region awareness for text detection

Y Baek, B Lee, D Han, S Yun… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text detection methods based on neural networks have emerged recently and have
shown promising results. Previous methods trained with rigid word-level bounding boxes …

Textsnake: A flexible representation for detecting text of arbitrary shapes

S Long, J Ruan, W Zhang, X He… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Driven by deep neural networks and large scale datasets, scene text detection methods
have progressed substantially over the past years, continuously refreshing the performance …

Rosetta: Large scale system for text detection and recognition in images

F Borisyuk, A Gordo, V Sivakumar - Proceedings of the 24th ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we present a deployed, scalable optical character recognition (OCR) system,
which we call Rosetta, designed to process images uploaded daily at Facebook scale …

Seglink++: Detecting dense and arbitrary-shaped scene text by instance-aware component grou**

J Tang, Z Yang, Y Wang, Q Zheng, Y Xu, X Bai - Pattern recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
State-of-the-art methods have achieved impressive performances on multi-oriented text
detection. Yet, they usually have difficulty in handling curved and dense texts, which are …

Textmountain: Accurate scene text detection via instance segmentation

Y Zhu, J Du - Pattern Recognition, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel scene text detection method named TextMountain. The
key idea of TextMountain is making full use of border-center information. Different from …

Multi-scale multi-task fcn for semantic page segmentation and table detection

D He, S Cohen, B Price, D Kifer… - 2017 14th IAPR …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page segmentation and table detection play an important role in understanding the structure
of documents. We present a page segmentation algorithm that incorporates state-of-the-art …

A survey of deep learning approaches for ocr and document understanding

N Subramani, A Matton, M Greaves, A Lam - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Documents are a core part of many businesses in many fields such as law, finance, and
technology among others. Automatic understanding of documents such as invoices …