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We are amazingly good results using SWT[1] for text detection/boundaries and Tesseract for OCR. Pretty much on par with the results here.

We used to run this on videos.

[1] http://libccv.org/doc/doc-swt/



Can you elaborate a little more about what kind of texts you were reading from video? Also, how you used the swt for detecting texts/boundaries?




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