Deep Learning based Text Detection Using OpenCV

There is a common saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words". In this post, we are going to take that literally and try to find the words in a picture! In an earlier post about Text Recognition, we discussed how Tesseract works and how it can be used along with OpenCV for text detection as well as recognition. This time, we are going to have a look at robust approach for detecting text, based on a recent paper: EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector. It should be noted that text detection is different from text recognition.