A text detection CNN is a CNN that takes an image which may contain multiple words. This outputs a list of Rects with bounding boxes and probability of text there.
Although other backends will be supported, for the moment only the Caffe backend is supported.
Instalation of Caffe backend
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* Please note a custom caffe based on SSD branch is required, the link of the custom caffe is provided below
The caffe wrapping backend has the requirements caffe does.
* Caffe can be built against OpenCV, if the caffe backend is enabled, a circular bependency arises.
The simplest solution is to build caffe without support for OpenCV.
* Only the OS supported by Caffe are supported by the backend.
The scripts describing the module have been developed in ubuntu 16.04 and assume such a system.
Other UNIX systems including OSX should be easy to adapt.