Introduced in Total-Text: A Comprehensive Dataset for Scene Text Detection and Recognition2016
Total-Text is a text detection dataset that consists of 1,555 images with a variety of text types including horizontal, multi-oriented, and curved text instances. The training split and testing split have 1,255 images and 300 images, respectively.
Source: Convolutional Character Networks Image Source: https://github.com/cs-chan/Total-Text-Dataset