EAST + CRNN

Introduction

This is an end-to-end scene text detection demo based on EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector and CRNN. It is basically a combination of the work done by argman and MaybeShewill-CV.

Contents

1. Installation
2. Download
3. Run demo server

Installation

1. Any version of Tensorflow version > 1.0 should be ok.

Download

1. Pre-trained model by EAST author, see BaiduYun link or GoogleDrive
2. Pre-trained CRNN model by original author see GitHub

Run Demo Server

If you've downloaded the pre-trained model, you can setup a demo server

python3 run_demo_server.py 

Then open http://localhost:8769 for the web demo. Notice that the URL will change after you submitted an image. Something like ?r=49647854-7ac2-11e7-8bb7-80000210fe80 appends and that makes the URL persistent. As long as you are not deleting data in static/results, you can share your results to your friends using the same URL.

URL for example below: http://east.zxytim.com/?r=48e5020a-7b7f-11e7-b776-f23c91e0703e