
textspotter.org
TextSpotter :. Center for Machine PerceptionReal-Time Scene Text Localization and Recognition. TextSpotter performs end-to-end scene text localization and recognition in real time. The real-time performance is achieved by posing the character detection problem as an efficient sequential selection from the set of Extremal Regions (ERs). The ER detector is robust to blur, illumination, color and texture variation and handles low contrast text.
http://www.textspotter.org/