Video OCR for Indexing and Retrieval

We present an implementation of a search engine that searches videos based on its textual content. The system consists of four parts video processing, spell correction, indexing and searching. The video processing is done by dividing the video into frames and extracting text out of it. Lecture videos, news having some textual content in it show good results. General Terms Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Connected Components (CCs), Video Search Engine.

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