An Overview of Text Information Extraction from Images

Abstract

In this chapter, we present an overview of text information extraction from images/video. This chapter starts with an introduction to computer vision and its applications, which is followed by an introduction to text information extraction from images/video. We describe various forms of text, challenges and steps involved in text information extraction process. The literature review of techniques for text information extraction from images/video is presented. Finally, our approach for extraction of scene text information from images is presented.