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

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    1,000 street view images, 2,955 text instances [

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    450,000 images (430,000 train, 20,000 test), horizontal/multi-oriented/curved text [

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    1,500 images (1,000 train, 500 test), 17,548 text instances, first incidental scene text dataset [

Text Generation with Diffusion Models

Weakly Supervised Methods

Multilingual & Low-Resource Languages

Other Scene Text Papers

  • paperHandwritten Text Recognition

  • paperHandwritten Text Recognition

  • paperAttention & Rectification Methods

  • paperAttention & Rectification Methods

  • paperMathematical Expression Recognition

  • paperSelf-Supervised & Contrastive Learning

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