DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection -baidu, arxiv2023, code
Real-time Scene Text Detection Based on Global Level and Word Level Features -arxiv2022
Kernel Proposal Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detection -yinxucheng, TNNLS2022,code
Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion -baixiang, PAMI2022, code
Towards End-to-End Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis -CVPR2022, google, code
Arbitrary Shape Text Detection using Transformers -arxiv2022
Few Could Be Better Than All: Feature Sampling and Grouping for Scene Text Detection -baixiang, CVPR2022
Vision-Language Pre-Training for Boosting Scene Text Detectors -baixiang, CVPR2022
UNITS: Unsupervised Intermediate Training Stage for Scene Text Detection -guoyouhui, ICME2022
Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Boundary Transformer -yinxucheng, arxiv2022
Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Segmentation with Probability Maps -yinxucheng, PAMI2022, code
HRRegionNet: Chinese Character Segmentation in Historical Documents with Regional Awareness -ICDAR2021
[Real-Time]Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization -baixiang, AAAI2020, code
Deep relational reasoning graph network for arbitrary shape text detection -yinxucheng, CVPR2020, code
All you need is boundary: Toward arbitrary-shaped text spotting -baixiang, AAAI2020
All you need is a second look: Towards Tighter Arbitrary shape text detection -arxiv2020
Self-Training for Domain Adaptive Scene Text Detection -arxiv2020
NENET: An Edge Learnable Network for Link Prediction in Scene Text -arxiv2020
Efficient Scene Text Detection with Textual Attention Tower -Liang Zhang, ICASSP2020
Scale-Invariant Multi-Oriented Text Detection in Wild Scene Images -Kinjal Dasgupta, arxiv2020
PuzzleNet: Scene Text Detection by Segment Context Graph Learning -Hao Liu, arxiv2020
Refined Gate: A Simple and Effective Gating Mechanism for Recurrent Units -Yu Qiao, arxiv2020
HRCenterNet: An Anchorless Approach to Chinese Character Segmentation in Historical Documents -BigData2020, code
Look more than once: An accurate detector for text of arbitrary shapes -baidu, CVPR2019
Gliding vertex on the horizontal bounding box for multi-oriented object detection -Xiang Bai, arxiv2019code
Exploring the Capacity of Sequential-free Box Discretization Network for Omnidirectional Scene Text Detection -jinlianwen, arxiv2019
Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection with Pixel Aggregation Network -face++, ICCV 2019, code
A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on Context Attended Multi-Task Learning -Pengfei Wang, arxiv2019
It's All About The Scale -- Efficient Text Detection Using Adaptive Scaling -Elad Richardson, arxiv2019
FaSTExt: Fast and Small Text Extractor -Alexander Filonenko, arxiv2019
Curved Text Detection in Natural Scene Images with Semi- and Weakly-Supervised Learning -Xugong Qin, arxiv2019
Learning Shape-Aware Embedding for Scene Text Detection -CUHK, Tencent, CVPR2019
Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network -megi++, CVPR2019
Arbitrary Shape Scene Text Detection with Adaptive Text Region Representation -Xiaobing Wang, Yingying Jiang, Zhenbo Luo, Cheng-Lin Liu, Hyunsoo Choi, Sungjin Kim, CVPR2019
Character Region Awareness for Text Detection -Youngmin Baek, Bado Lee, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun, Hwalsuk Lee, CVPR2019
Towards Robust Curve Text Detection with Conditional Spatial Expansion -Zichuan Liu, Guosheng Lin, Sheng Yang, Fayao Liu, Weisi Lin, Wang Ling Goh, CVPR2019
Pyramid Mask Text Detector -sensetime, arxiv2019
Look More Than Once: An Accurate Detector for Text of Arbitrary Shapes -baidu, CVPR2019
Character Region Awareness for Text Detection -Clova, CVPR2019
Detecting Text in the Wild with Deep Character Embedding Network -baidu, arxiv2019
TextField: Learning A Deep Direction Field for Irregular Scene Text Detection -Yongchao Xu, Yukang Wang, Wei Zhou, Yongpan Wang, Zhibo Yang, Xiang Bai, arxiv2018
TextMountain: Accurate Scene Text Detection via Instance Segmentation -Yixing Zhu, Jun Du, arxiv2018
Mask R-CNN with Pyramid Attention Network for Scene Text Detection -MSRA, arxiv2018
Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network -face++, AAAI2019
Pixel-Anchor: A Fast Oriented Scene Text Detector with Combined Networks -cloudwalk, arxiv2018
Improving Rotated Text Detection with Rotation Region Proposal Networks -facebook, arxiv2018
IncepText: A New Inception-Text Module with Deformable PSROI Pooling for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection -Alibaba, IJCAI2018
TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes -peking, face++, arxiv2018
PSENET: Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network -deepinsight, CVPR2019
Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals -J Ma, W Shao, H Ye, L Wang, H Wang, TMM2018
TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector -Minghui Liao, Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, arxiv2018 code
Dense and Tight Detection of Chinese Characters in Historical Documents: Datasets and a Recognition Guided Detector -JinLianwen, IEEEaccess2018
R2CNN: Rotational Region CNN for Orientation Robust Scene Text Detection -Samsung, arxiv2018
Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation -Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Wenhao Wu, Shuicheng Yan, Xiang Bai, arxiv2018
PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation -Dan Deng, Haifeng Liu, Xuelong Li, Deng Cai, aaai2018
EAST: an efficient and accurate scene text detector -Megvii, cvpr2017, code
Scene text detection and segmentation based on cascaded convolution neural networks -Y Tang, X Wu, TIP2017
TextBoxes: A Fast Text Detector with a Single Deep Neural Network. -M Liao, B Shi, X Bai, X Wang, W Liu, AAAI2017, code
Deep direct regression for multi-oriented scene text detection -W He, XY Zhang, F Yin, CL Liu, ICCV2017
Detecting oriented text in natural images by linking segments -B Shi, X Bai, S Belongie, CVPR2017, code
Deep Matching Prior Network: Toward Tighter Multi-oriented Text Detection -Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin, CVPR2017
Feature Enhancement Network: A Refined Scene Text Detector -Sheng Zhang, Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin, Canjie Luo, arxiv2017
Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention -Pan He, Weilin Huang, Tong He, Qile Zhu, Yu Qiao, and Xiaolin Li, ICCV2017
A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Chinese Text Detection Algorithm via Text Structure Modeling -Xiaohang Ren, Yi Zhou, Jianhua He, Kai Chen, Xiaokang Yang, Jun Sun, TMM2017
Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection -Yuchen Dai, et al, arxiv2017
Scene Text Detection with Novel Superpixel Based Character Candidate Extraction -Cong Wang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu, ICDAR2017
WeText: Scene Text Detection under Weak Supervision -Shangxuan Tian, Shijian Lu, Chongshou Li, ICCV2017
WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based Text Detection -MSRA, IDL, ICCV2017
Deep Residual Text Detection Network for Scene Text -Xiangyu Zhu, et al, arxiv2017
Cascaded Segmentation-Detection Networks for Word-Level Text Spotting -Siyang Qin, Roberto Manduchi, arxiv2017
Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals -Jianqi Ma, et al, TMM2017
Multi-oriented text detection with fully convolutional networks -Z Zhang, C Zhang, W Shen, C Yao, CVPR2016
Scene text detection via holistic, multi-channel prediction -C Yao, X Bai, N Sang, X Zhou, S Zhou, arxiv2016

Multi-modal In-Context Learning Makes an Ego-evolving Scene Text Recognizer -bytedance, CVPR2024, code
Revisiting Scene Text Recognition: A Data Perspective -jinlianwen, ICCV2023, code
Context Perception Parallel Decoder for Scene Text Recognition -baidu,arxiv2023
Cdistnet: Perceiving multi-domain character distance for robust text recognition -fudan, IJCV2023, code
Trocr: Transformer-based optical character recognition with pre-trained models -Microsoft, AAAI2023, code
Context-Based Contrastive Learning for Scene Text Recognition -AAAI2022
SVTR: Scene Text Recognition with a Single Visual Model -baidu, IJCAI2022, code
Multi-modal Text Recognition Networks: Interactive enhancements between visual and semantic features -ECCV2022
Reciprocal Feature Learning via Explicit and Implicit Tasks in Scene Text Recognition -hikvision, ICDAR2021, code
Dictionary-Guided Scene Text Recognition -CVPR2021,code
TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models -beihang, arxiv2021, code
RecycleNet: An Overlapped Text Instance Recovery Approach -tencent, MMM21
Vision Transformer for Fast and Efficient Scene Text Recognition Rowel-ICDAR2021
Visual-semantic transformer for scene text recognitio-pingan, arxiv2021
PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Network -baidu, AAAI2021, code
What If We Only Use Real Datasets for Scene Text Recognition? Toward Scene Text Recognition With Fewer Labels -tokyo, CVPR2021, code
Read Like Humans: Autonomous, Bidirectional and Iterative Language Modeling for Scene Text Recognition -ShanchengFang, CVPR2021, code
[light]Hamming OCR: A Locality Sensitive Hashing Neural Network for Scene Text Recognition --pingan, arxiv2020
Gaussian Constrained Attention Network for Scene Text Recognition -qiaozhi, ICPR2020, code
Adaptive Text Recognition through Visual Matching -zisserman, ECCV2020
On Vocabulary Reliance in Scene Text Recognition -megvii, CVPR2020
Joint Layout Analysis, Character Detection and Recognition for Historical Document Digitization -JinLianwen, ICFHR2020
Text Recognition in Real Scenarios with a Few Labeled Samples -arxiv2020
RobustScanner: Dynamically Enhancing Positional Clues for Robust Text Recognition -ECCV2020
On Recognizing Texts of Arbitrary Shapes With 2D Self-Attention -CVPRW2020
SEED: Semantics Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework for Scene Text Recognition -zhi qiao, CVPR2020
Text Recognition in the Wild: A Survey -jinlianwen, arxiv2020
GTC: Guided Training of CTC Towards Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Recognition -Wenyang Hu, AAAI2020
A New Perspective for Flexible Feature Gathering in Scene Text Recognition Via Character Anchor Pooling -yao cong, ICASSP2020
SCATTER: Selective Context Attentional Scene Text Recognizer -Ron Litman, CVPR2020
Scene Text Recognition via Transformer -Xinjie Feng, arxiv2020
Efficient Backbone Search for Scene Text Recognition -baixiang, arxiv2020
Towards Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Semantic Reasoning Networks -Baidu, CVPR2020
Learn to Augment: Joint Data Augmentation and Network Optimization for Text Recognition -jinlianwen, CVPR2020, code
Decoupled Attention Network for Text Recognition -jianlianwen, AAAI2020
Fast Dense Residual Network: Enhancing Global Dense Feature Flow for Text Recognition -Zhao Zhang, arxiv2020
Separating Content from Style Using Adversarial Learning for Recognizing Text in the Wild -jin lianwen, arxiv2020
TextScanner: Reading Characters in Order for Robust Scene Text Recognition -yao cong, AAAI2020
What Is Wrong With Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis clova-ICCV2019,code
A Feasible Framework for Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Recognition -champion in ICDAR2019, arxiv2019code
Deep Neural Network for Semantic-based Text Recognition in Images -Yi Zheng, arxiv2019
Symmetry-constrained Rectification Network for Scene Text Recognition -baixiang, ICCV2019
Adaptive Embedding Gate for Attention-Based Scene Text Recognition -Linwen Jin, arxiv2019
Focus-Enhanced Scene Text Recognition with Deformable Convolutions -Yanxiang Gong, arxiv2019, code
Rethinking Irregular Scene Text Recognition -yao cong, ICDAR19 art champion, code
Aggregation Cross-Entropy for Sequence Recognition -Zecheng Xie, Yaoxiong Huang, Yuanzhi Zhu, Lianwen Jin, Yuliang Liu, Lele Xie, CVPR2019,code
Sequence-to-Sequence Domain Adaptation Networkfor Robust Text Image Recognition, CASIA, CVPR2019
Towards End-to-End Text Spotting in Natural Scenes -LiHui, et al, arxiv2019
2D Attentional Irregular Scene Text Recognizer -Tencent, arxiv2019
ESIR: End-to-end Scene Text Recognition via Iterative Image Rectification -Fangneng Zhan, Shijian Lu, CVPR2019
FACLSTM: ConvLSTM with Focused Attention for Scene Text Recognition -Qingqing Wang, et al, arxiv2019
A Multi-Object Rectified Attention Network for Scene Text Recognition -Canjie Luo, Lianwen Jin, Zenghui Sun, PR2019
Show, Attend and Read: A Simple and Strong Baseline for Irregular Text Recognition -Hui Li, Peng Wang, Chunhua Shen, Guyu Zhang, AAAI2019, code
Scene Text Recognition from Two-Dimensional Perspective -Minghui Liao, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, et al, AAAI2019
Recurrent Calibration Network for Irregular Text Recognition -Hanqing Lu, arxiv2018
ESIR: End-to-end Scene Text Recognition via Iterative Image Rectification -Fangneng Zhan, Shijian Lu, arxiv2018
Synthetically Supervised Feature Learning for Scene Text Recognition -Adobe, ECCV2018
Connectionist Temporal Classification with Maximum Entropy Regularization -Tsinghua, NeurIPS2018,code
ASTER: An Attentional Scene Text Recognizer with Flexible Rectification -Baixiang, PAMI2018, code
Edit Probability for Scene Text Recognition -Fudan, Hikvision, cvpr2018
SqueezedText: A Real-time Scene Text Recognition by Binary Convolutional Encoder-decoder Network -Zichuan Liu, et al, AAAI2018
State of the Art Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Fraktur Scripts using Open Source Engines -arxiv2018
SCAN: Sliding Convolutional Attention Network for Scene Text Recognition -Yichao Wu, et al, arxiv2018
NRTR: A No-Recurrence Sequence-to-Sequence Model For Scene Text Recognition -Fenfen Sheng, et al, arxiv2018
AON: Towards Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Recognition -Hikvision, et al, CVPR2018
An end-to-end trainable neural network for image-based sequence recognition and its application to scene text recognition -B Shi, X Bai, C Yao , TPAMI2017 code
Scene Text Recognition with Sliding Convolutional Character Models -fei yin, et al, arxiv2017
Focusing Attention: Towards Accurate Text Recognition in Natural Images -Hikvision, et al, ICCV2017
AdaDNNs: Adaptive Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks for Scene Text Recognition -Chun Yang, Xu-Cheng Yin, arxiv2017
Strokelets: A learned multi-scale mid-level representation for scene text recognition -X Bai, C Yao, W Liu , TIP2016
Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences -P He, W Huang, Y Qiao, CC Loy, X Tang, AAAI2016
Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Network for Scene Text Detection -Tong He, Weilin Huang, Yu Qiao, Jian Yao, TIP2016
Robust Scene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification -Baoguang Shi, Xinggang Wang, Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, CVPR2016
DeepText: A Unified Framework for Text Proposal Generation and Text Detection in Natural Images -Zhuoyao Zhong, Lianwen Jin, Shuye Zhang, Ziyong Feng, arxiv2016
Recursive Recurrent Nets with Attention Modeling for OCR in the Wild -Yahoo, CVPR2016

ABINet++: Autonomous, Bidirectional and Iterative Language Modeling for Scene Text Spotting -ustc, PAMI2023,code
Language Matters: A Weakly Supervised Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spotting -bytedance, arxiv2022
DEER: Detection-agnostic End-to-End Recognizer for Scene Text Spotting -naver, arxiv2022, code
SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition -jinlianwen, CVPR2022, code
End-to-End Video Text Spotting with Transformer -shenchunhua, arxiv2022, code
Text Spotting Transformers -intel, CVPR2022
PP-OCRv3: More Attempts for the Improvement of Ultra Lightweight OCR System -baidu, arxiv2022
[light]PP-OCRv2: Bag of Tricks for Ultra Lightweight OCR System -baidu, arxiv2021, code
[icdar competition]1st Place Solution to ICDAR 2021 RRC-ICTEXT End-to-end Text Spotting and Aesthetic Assessment on Integrated Circuit -hikvision, arxiv2021
ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time End-to-end Text Spotting -jinlianwen, arxiv2021, code
[light]PP-OCR: A Practical Ultra Lightweight OCR System -baidu, arxiv2020, code
Character Region Attention For Text Spotting -ECCV2020
Mask TextSpotter v3: Segmentation Proposal Network for Robust Scene Text Spotting -baixiang, ECCV2020, code
Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild: A Review -arxiv2020
Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting -Liang Qiao, AAAI2020
All You Need Is Boundary: Toward Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting -baixiang, AAAI2020
ABCNet: Real-time Scene Text Spotting with Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network -jin lianwen, CVPR2020
Convolutional Character Networks -Linjie Xing, Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Matthew R. Scott, ICCV2019
TextDragon: An End-to-End Framework for Arbitrary Shaped Text Spotting -Chenglin Liu, CVPR2019
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes -baixiang, TPAMI2019
Towards Unconstrained End-to-End Text Spotting -google ai, arxiv2019
Towards End-to-End Text Spotting in Natural Scenes -Hui Li, Peng Wang, Chunhua Shen, arxiv2019
Weakly supervised precise segmentation for historical document images -JIn Lianwen, Neurocomputing2019
A Novel Integrated Framework for Learning both Text Detection and Recognition -alibaba, arxiv2018
TextNet: Irregular Text Reading from Images with an End-to-End Trainable Network -baidu, arxiv2018
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes -Pengyuan Lyu, Minghui Liao, Cong Yao, Wenhao Wu, Xiang Bai, arxiv2018
FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network -Xuebo Liu, Ding Liang, Shi Yan, Dagui Chen, Yu Qiao, Junjie Yan, CVPR2018
E2E-MLT - an Unconstrained End-to-End Method for Multi-Language Scene Text -Yash Patel, et al, arxiv2018
SEE: Towards Semi-Supervised End-to-End Scene Text Recognition -Christian Bartz, Haojin Yang, Christoph Meinel, AAAI2018
An end-to-end TextSpotter with Explicit Alignment and Attention -Tong He, Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Chunhua Shen, Yu Qiao, Changming Sun, CVPR2018
Towards End-to-end Text Spotting with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks -Hui Li, et al, ICCV2017
Deep TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Scene Text Localization and Recognition Framework -Michal Busta, et al, ICCV2017, code
Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks -Max Jaderberg, et al, IJCV2016

Thinking Fast and Slow: Efficient Text-to-Visual Retrieval with Transformers -zisserman, CVPR2021
Frozen in Time: A Joint Video and Image Encoder for End-to-End Retrieval -zisserman, arxiv2021
Scene Text Retrieval via Joint Text Detection and Similarity Learning -baixiang, CVPR2021, code/CSVTR database

https://github.com/clovaai/synthtiger
Editing Text in the Wild -baidu, ACM MM 2019
Data Augmentation for Scene Text Recognition -ICCV2021 workshop, code
text_renderer
SynthText
SynthText
TextRecognitionDataGenerator
UnrealText
ScrabbleGAN: Semi-Supervised Varying Length Handwritten Text Generation -Sharon Fogel, CVPR2020
SynthText3D: Synthesizing Scene Text Images from 3D Virtual Worlds -Minghui Liao, Boyu Song, Minghang He, Shangbang Long, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, arxiv2019code
Spatial Fusion GAN for Image Synthesis -Fangneng Zhan, Hongyuan Zhu, Shijian Lu, CVPR2019, code
Verisimilar Image Synthesis for Accurate Detection and Recognition of Texts in Scenes -Fangneng Zhan, Shijian Lu, Chuhui Xue, ECCV2018

CLEval: Character-Level Evaluation for Text Detection and Recognition Tasks -arxiv2020
End-To-End Measure for Text Recognition -ICDAR2019
Tightness-aware Evaluation Protocol for Scene Text Detection -jinlianwen, CVPR2019

Patch Aggregator for Scene Text Script Identification --baixiang, arxiv2019

Text Gestalt: Stroke-Aware Scene Text Image Super-Resolution -fudan, AAAI2022, code
Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration google, CVPR2022, code
Scene Text Telescope: Text-Focused Scene Image Super-Resolution -fudan, CVPR2021
Text Prior Guided Scene Text Image Super-resolution -arxiv2021, code
Scene Text Image Super-Resolution in the Wild -baixiang, ECCV2020

AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing -alibaba, arxiv2023, code
Stroke-Based Scene Text Erasing Using Synthetic Data for Training -TIP2021
Page Layout Analysis System for Unconstrained Historic Documents -ICDAR2021
EraseNet: End-to-End Text Removal in the Wild -Jinlianwen, TIP2020, code
SwapText: Image Based Texts Transfer in Scenes -Qiangpeng Yang, CVPR2020
UnrealText: Synthesizing Realistic Scene Text Images from the Unreal World -Cong Yao, CVPR2020
EnsNet: Ensconce Text in the Wild -JinLianwen, AAAI2019, code
TextSR: Content-Aware Text Super-Resolution Guided by Recognition -forevision, arxiv2019
Editing Text in the Wild -baixiang, ACM MM2019
MTRNet: A Generic Scene Text Eraser -ICDAR2019
Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era -face++, arxiv2018
Text/non-text image classification in the wild with convolutional neural networks -X Bai, B Shi, C Zhang, X Cai, L Qi, PR2017
Scene text script identification with convolutional recurrent neural networks -J Mei, L Dai, B Shi, X Bai, ICPR2016

Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning -FAIR, ICML2017
Sequence Level Training with Recurrent Neural Networks -FAIR, ICLR2016
A Convolutional Encoder Model for Neural Machine Translation -FAIR, arxiv2016

LayoutReader: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Reading Order Detection -MSRA, EMNLP2021, code/database

TRW15: ICDAR 2015 Text Reading in the Wild Competition
RCTW-17: ICDAR2017-Reading Chinese Text in the Wild
STV2k: A New Benchmark for Scene Text Detection and Recognition
CTW: Chinese Text in the Wild
PAL10K
COCO TS Dataset
ICPR MTWI 2018 挑战赛一：网络图像的文本识别

Comprehensive Benchmark Datasets for Amharic Scene Text Detection and Recognition
Textual Visual Semantic Dataset for Text Spotting
RoadText-1K: Text Detection & Recognition Dataset for Driving Videos DDI-100: Dataset for Text Detection and Recognition Verisimilar Image Synthesis for Accurate Detection and Recognition of Texts in Scenes -Fangneng Zhan, Shijian Lu, and Chuhui Xue, arxiv2018
Total-Text -1555 images
SCUT-CTW1500 -Curved text in the wild
MLT: Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification -Multi-lingual text: 18,000 images, 9 different languages representing 6 different scripts
Synthetic Word Dataset, Synthetic Data and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Scene Text Recognition
Total-text: A comprehensive dataset for scene text detection and recognition - -Chee Kheng Ch'ng, Chee Seng Chan
Street View Text(SVT)
IIIT 5k-words
MSRA-TD500
KAIST Scene_Text Database
ICDAR2011, ICDAR2013, ICDAR2015, ICDAR2017, robust reading-Focused Scene Text
ICDAR2017-ICDAR 2017 Robust Reading Challenge on Omnidirectional Video(DOST)
COCO-Text
Google French Street Name Signs (FSNS) dataset
ICDAR2017-ICDAR2017 Competition on Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification(MLT)
ICDAR2017-Born-Digital Images (Web and Email)
Detecting Curve Text in the Wild: New Dataset and New Solution
Synthetic Word
Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Images -Ankush Gupta, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman, CVPR2016

VinText

ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17) -B Shi, C Yao, M Liao, M Yang, P Xu, L Cui, arxiv2017
ICDAR 2015 competition on robust reading
Incidental Scene Text Understanding: Recent Progresses on ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition Challenge 4 -Cong Yao, Jianan Wu, Xinyu Zhou, Chi Zhang, Shuchang Zhou, Zhimin Cao, Qi Yin

awesome-deep-text-detection-recognition
Awesome-Scene-Text-Recognition
Scene Text Detection