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A curated list of papers and resources for scene text detection and recognition

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Survey PapersTools & LibrariesDatasets & BenchmarksScene Text DetectionScene Text RecognitionEnd-to-End Text SpottingVideo Text Detection & RecognitionText Generation with Diffusion ModelsText Editing & RemovalWeakly Supervised MethodsMultilingual & Low-Resource LanguagesDocument AI & Layout AnalysisOther Scene Text Papers

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Tools & Libraries

Datasets & Benchmarks

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    509 images (258 train, 251 test), 2,266 text instances, English only [

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    5,000 word images (2,000 train, 3,000 test), 50-word and 1,000-word lexicons [

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    Hierarchical text with word/line/paragraph annotations, 103.8 words/image [

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    20,000 images, Chinese street view trademark dataset [

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    462 images (229 train, 233 test), 1,944 text instances [

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    80 high-resolution images, 288 cropped curved text instances [

Text Generation with Diffusion Models

Weakly Supervised Methods

Multilingual & Low-Resource Languages

Scene Text Detection

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