Image text detection using directional edge kernels
A.S. Rumale, Abhijit Janardan Patankar, Maheshkumar H. Kolekar · 2009
The detection and extraction of text regions in an image is a well known problem in the computer vision research area. Here, in this paper we implemented a simple edge detection algorithm using direction kernels, with which we can detect text from images. Since text information generally has sharp edges, we exploit this property to detect text in the image. The paper throws light on text detection with due explanation of the algorithm applied with some experimental sample output we obtained in this work. Dataset used to obtain the results are our own while we adapted the idea of algorithm from references. (5 pages)