synthtext.md

SynthText Datasets

Data Downloading

SynthText is a synthetically generated dataset, in which word instances are placed in natural scene images, while taking into account the scene layout.

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Download the SynthText.zip file and unzip in [path-to-data-dir] folder:

path-to-data-dir/
 ├── SynthText/
 │   ├── 1/
 │   │   ├── ant+hill_1_0.jpg
 │   │   └── ...
 │   ├── 2/
 │   │   ├── ant+hill_4_0.jpg
 │   │   └── ...
 │   ├── ...
 │   └── gt.mat

⚠️ Additionally, It is strongly recommended to pre-process the SynthText dataset before using it as it contains some faulty data:

python tools/dataset_converters/convert.py --dataset_name=synthtext --task=det --label_dir=/path-to-data-dir/SynthText/gt.mat --output_path=/path-to-data-dir/SynthText/gt_processed.mat --image_dir=/path-to-data-dir/SynthText

This operation will generate a filtered output in the same format as the original SynthText.

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