English OCR Dataset in Natural Scenes

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This dataset contains 71,535 English natural-scene images collected from real environments in the UK and the United States. The data diversity includes multiple scenes, multiple photographic angles and multiple light conditions. For annotation, line-level & word-leve & character-level rectangular bounding box or quadrilateral bounding box annotation were adopted, the text transcription was also adopted. This dataset is suitable for English OCR, scene text detection, and text recognition research in real-world environments.

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English OCR Dataset in Natural Scenes – 71,535 Images

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English OCR dataset

scene text dataset

street sign text dataset

outdoor OCR dataset

image text dataset

text detection dataset

text recognition dataset