Robust Scene Text Detection and Recognition: Introduction

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/robust-scene-text-detection-and-recognition-introduction/

Identification and recognition of text from natural scenes and images become important for use cases like video caption text recognition, detecting signboards from vehicle-mounted cameras, information retrieval, scene understanding, vehicle number plate recognition, and recognizing text on products.  Most of these use cases require near real-time performance. The common technique for text extraction includes using…