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Pytorch CTPN

update 19-03-20 wed: android ocr

This is a pytorch implementation of CTPN(Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network).Inspired by keras-ocr.

Training log is available:Training Log(Chinese)

model	size
keras-CTPN	142M
pytorch-CTPN	67.6M

train

• download ctpn model weights (converted from keras ctpn weights) ctpn_keras_weights.pth.tar from dropbox, and move it to ./checkpoints/ (For a number of reasons, the pretrained weights will no longer be available.Thanks for your attention.)
• download VOC2007_text_detection Chinese Text Detection dataset and move it to ./images/
• run python ctpn_train.py --image-dir image_dir --labels-dir labels_dir --num-workers num_workers

predict

• download the pretrained weights from dropbox
• Please refer to predict.py for more details.

results

Training Log(Chinese)

Android DEMO

These days, I'm working on deploying this model on Android devices.you can check the results from here.

Android text recognition 4-23

Find out that adopting skew transform can significantly improve recognition accuracy.(It may take a few seconds, heavily depends on your harware and input image size)

reference

• CTPN (Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network)
• keras-ocr

Licence

MIT License