A Review: Text Detection in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform

Detecting text segments in an image of a natural scene, by using the Stroke Width Transform The approach of SWT is grouping pixels together in an intelligent way, instead of looking for separating features of pixels. To find the value of stroke width for each image pixel, and demonstrate its use on the task of text detection in natural images. The application receives an RGB image to search in, and returns a new image where the discovered text segments are marked. Due to the features of the SWT, the resulting system is able to detect text regardless of its scale, direction, font and language.