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John Rothman
John Rothman

Reputation: 1

Quick way to classify if an image contains text or not

I have millions of images, and I am able to use OCR with pytesseract to perform descent text extraction, but it takes too long to process all of the images.

Thus I would like to determine if an image simply contains text or not, and if it doesn't, i wouldn't have to perform OCR on it. Ideally this method would have a high recall.

I was thinking about building a SVM or some machine learning model to help detect, but I was hoping if anyone new of a method to quickly determine if an object contains text or not.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 649

Answers (1)

BradleyRobertR
BradleyRobertR

Reputation: 55

Unfortunately there is no way to tell if an image has text in it, without performing OCR of some kind on it.

You could build a machine learning model that handles this, however keep in mind it would still need to process the image as well.

Upvotes: 2

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