Text Spotting

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

6 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 64 papers with code (112 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• ABCNet: Real-time Scene Text Spotting with Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network
  24 Feb 2020 16 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Our contributions are three-fold: 1) For the first time, we adaptively fit arbitrarily-shaped text by a parameterized Bezier curve.
• FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network
  5 Jan 2018 7 repositories listed
  Incidental scene text spotting is considered one of the most difficult and valuable challenges in the document analysis community.
• Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End and Two-Step Text Spotting
  6 Apr 2024 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 26 of 37 samples · 11 unverified · 23 pointer-only (licence)
  Subsequently, we introduce a Bridge that connects the locked detector and recognizer through a zero-initialized neural network.
• ESTextSpotter: Towards Better Scene Text Spotting with Explicit Synergy in Transformer
  20 Aug 2023 3 repositories listed
  To this end, we introduce a new model named Explicit Synergy-based Text Spotting Transformer framework (ESTextSpotter), which achieves explicit synergy by modeling discriminative and interactive features for text…
• SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spotting
  4 Jan 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 16 samples · 11 unverified
  Within the context of our SPTS v2 framework, our experiments suggest a potential preference for single-point representation in scene text spotting when compared to other representations.
• A Bilingual, OpenWorld Video Text Dataset and End-to-end Video Text Spotter with Transformer
  9 Dec 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 16 of 19 samples · 3 unverified · 19 pointer-only (licence)
  Most existing video text spotting benchmarks focus on evaluating a single language and scenario with limited data.
• Semantic Relatedness Based Re-ranker for Text Spotting
  17 Sep 2019 3 repositories listed
  We present a scenario where semantic similarity is not enough, and we devise a neural approach to learn semantic relatedness.
• Visual Re-ranking with Natural Language Understanding for Text Spotting
  29 Oct 2018 3 repositories listed
  We propose a post-processing approach to improve scene text recognition accuracy by using occurrence probabilities of words (unigram language model), and the semantic correlation between scene and text.
• GLASS: Global to Local Attention for Scene-Text Spotting
  5 Aug 2022 2 repositories listed
  In recent years, the dominant paradigm for text spotting is to combine the tasks of text detection and recognition into a single end-to-end framework.
• SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition
  19 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  End-to-end scene text spotting has attracted great attention in recent years due to the success of excavating the intrinsic synergy of the scene text detection and recognition.
• Open Images V5 Text Annotation and Yet Another Mask Text Spotter
  23 Jun 2021 2 repositories listed
  A large scale human-labeled dataset plays an important role in creating high quality deep learning models.
• PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Network
  12 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed
  With a PG-CTC decoder, we gather high-level character classification vectors from two-dimensional space and decode them into text symbols without NMS and RoI operations involved, which guarantees high efficiency.
• AE TextSpotter: Learning Visual and Linguistic Representation for Ambiguous Text Spotting
  3 Aug 2020 2 repositories listed
  Unlike previous works that merely employed visual features for text detection, this work proposes a novel text spotter, named Ambiguity Eliminating Text Spotter (AE TextSpotter), which learns both visual and linguistic…
• A Feasible Framework for Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Recognition
  10 Dec 2019 2 repositories listed
  Deep learning based methods have achieved surprising progress in Scene Text Recognition (STR), one of classic problems in computer vision.
• GoMatching++: Parameter- and Data-Efficient Arbitrary-Shaped Video Text Spotting and Benchmarking
  28 May 2025 1 repository listed
  We believe that GoMatching++ and the ArTVideo benchmark will drive future advancements in video text spotting.
• SemiETS: Integrating Spatial and Content Consistencies for Semi-Supervised End-to-end Text Spotting
  14 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  For example, it outperforms previous state-of-the-art SSL methods by a large margin on end-to-end spotting (+8.
• TextInPlace: Indoor Visual Place Recognition in Repetitive Structures with Scene Text Spotting and Verification
  9 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial capability for long-term autonomous robots, enabling them to identify previously visited locations using visual information.
• OmniParser V2: Structured-Points-of-Thought for Unified Visual Text Parsing and Its Generality to Multimodal Large Language Models
  22 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we introduce OmniParser V2, a universal model that unifies VsTP typical tasks, including text spotting, key information extraction, table recognition, and layout analysis, into a unified framework.
• InstructOCR: Instruction Boosting Scene Text Spotting
  20 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  In the field of scene text spotting, previous OCR methods primarily relied on image encoders and pre-trained text information, but they often overlooked the advantages of incorporating human language instructions.
• FastTextSpotter: A High-Efficiency Transformer for Multilingual Scene Text Spotting
  27 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  The proliferation of scene text in both structured and unstructured environments presents significant challenges in optical character recognition (OCR), necessitating more efficient and robust text spotting solutions.
• DNTextSpotter: Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Spotting via Improved Denoising Training
  1 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Unfortunately, this denoising training method cannot be directly applied to text spotting tasks, as these tasks need to perform irregular shape detection tasks and more complex text recognition tasks than classification.
• WeCromCL: Weakly Supervised Cross-Modality Contrastive Learning for Transcription-only Supervised Text Spotting
  28 Jul 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 8 of 11 samples · 3 unverified · 11 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we formulate this challenging problem as a Weakly Supervised Cross-modality Contrastive Learning problem, and design a simple yet effective model dubbed WeCromCL that is able to detect each transcription…
• VimTS: A Unified Video and Image Text Spotter for Enhancing the Cross-domain Generalization
  30 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Typically, we propose a Prompt Queries Generation Module and a Tasks-aware Adapter to effectively convert the original single-task model into a multi-task model suitable for both image and video scenarios with minimal…
• OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting, Key Information Extraction and Table Recognition
  28 Mar 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified
  Recently, visually-situated text parsing (VsTP) has experienced notable advancements, driven by the increasing demand for automated document understanding and the emergence of Generative Large Language Models (LLMs)…
• TextMonkey: An OCR-Free Large Multimodal Model for Understanding Document
  7 Mar 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We present TextMonkey, a large multimodal model (LMM) tailored for text-centric tasks.
• SwinTextSpotter v2: Towards Better Synergy for Scene Text Spotting
  15 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a new end-to-end scene text spotting framework termed SwinTextSpotter v2, which seeks to find a better synergy between text detection and recognition.
• GoMatching: A Simple Baseline for Video Text Spotting via Long and Short Term Matching
  13 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  In response to this issue, we propose to efficiently turn an off-the-shelf query-based image text spotter into a specialist on video and present a simple baseline termed GoMatching, which focuses the training efforts on…
• GloTSFormer: Global Video Text Spotting Transformer
  8 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel Global Video Text Spotting Transformer GloTSFormer to model the tracking problem as global associations and utilize the Gaussian Wasserstein distance to guide the morphological…
• OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting Key Information Extraction and Table Recognition
  1 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Recently visually-situated text parsing (VsTP) has experienced notable advancements driven by the increasing demand for automated document understanding and the emergence of Generative Large Language Models (LLMs)…
• Parrot Captions Teach CLIP to Spot Text
  21 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Despite CLIP being the foundation model in numerous vision-language applications, the CLIP suffers from a severe text spotting bias.

Syntology lines on 8 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.