Text recognition tool

Text recognition with Pytorch Using CRNN and CRAFT pretrained models.

Main sources:

• Character Region Awareness for Text Detection Paper
• [CRNN Paper]

Install it, install requirements.txt by

python -m pip install requirements.txt

and check argparsers. at the moment it is only input image so

> source venv/Scripts/activate
> python app.py --input_file test_image.jpeg

Example results

return .json file with

{"0": "dollar", "1": "glen", "2": "and", "3": "campbeli", "4": "castle"}�0

Usage

You can clone this repository, set up your own virtual environment by

python -m venv venv

Activate it by

source venv/Scripts/activate

Install requirements using pip

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

and run app.py

python app.py 

then go to

localhost:8000

and test it.

I decided to put it on simplest flask module only to show it's basic functionality.

To dos

add frontend and some fancy vis.