https://github.com/aperrault/DetectText

Detect text with stroke width transform.
https://github.com/aperrault/DetectText

c-plusplus opencv text-detection

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Detect text with stroke width transform.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aperrault/DetectText
• Owner: aperrault
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2012-07-07T00:23:16.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-03-08T20:24:37.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T16:18:38.351Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: c-plusplus, opencv, text-detection
• Language: C++
• Size: 35.2 KB
• Stars: 332
• Watchers: 37
• Forks: 151
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING.txt

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README

        
DetectText

==========

Detect text with stroke width transform.

## Dependencies

OpenCV 2.4+, boost.

## Compile

    g++ -o DetectText TextDetection.cpp FeaturesMain.cpp -lopencv_core -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_imgproc -I/path/to/current/directory

where /path/to/current/directory is replaced with the absolute path to the current directory.

### Using CMake

    mkdir build

    cd build

    cmake ..

    make

## To run

./TextDetection input_file output_file dark_on_light

where dark_on_light is 1 or 0, indicating whether the text is darker or lighter than the background.

## More 

Details on the algorithm can be found in:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4670/2010fa/projects/final/results/group_of_arp86_sk2357/Writeup.pdf