Efficient Character Skew Rectification in Scene Text Images

We present an efficient method for character skew rectification in scene text images. The method is based on a novel skew estimators, which exploit intuitive glyph properties and which can be efficiently computed in a linear time. The estimators are evaluated on a synthetically generated data (including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Runic scripts) and real scene text images, where the skew rectification by the proposed method improves the accuracy of a state-of-the-art scene text recognition pipeline.

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