A Survey of Image to Text Detection Methodology

The automatic detection of text within a natural image is an important problem in many applications. Text detection in natural images has gained much attention in the last years as it is a primary step towards fully autonomous text recognition. It needs to be fast, efficient and robust in order to feed an OCR classifier with the correct input. In other words, segmented regions must correspond to the actual text. A lot of work has been done for detecting text in images and a lot has to be done. This paper gives detailed survey on image to text detection mechanism. This paper gives the description of work done for automatically detection of text from images, localize and extract horizontally aligned text in images (and digital videos) with complex backgrounds.