clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch

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Official PyTorch implementation of CRAFT (Character Region Awareness for Text Detection), a scene text detector that localizes text by predicting character regions and character-link affinities. It ships pretrained models for general multilingual text and IC15, with optional link refinement for sentence-level detection.

Use cases

• detect text regions in natural scene images
• find bounding boxes of text for an OCR pipeline
• detect curved or rotated text in images
• run pretrained scene text detection on a folder of images
• extract text areas from photos before recognition
• benchmark text detection on ICDAR datasets

When to choose

• you need a proven scene text detector with pretrained weights
• your images contain curved, rotated, or multi-oriented text
• you want character-level awareness to build polygon or box detections
• you need a PyTorch-based detector that integrates with a recognition model

When to avoid

• you need to train the model from scratch - training code is not released
• you need text recognition, not just detection
• you want a maintained pipeline with frequent updates
• you need a non-PyTorch or lightweight CPU-only deployment

Facets

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ocr computer-vision image-processing deep-learning computer-vision image-processing python cross-platform text-detection scene-text pytorch cvpr2019 curved-text deep-learning ocr gpu

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