The ICPR MTWI-2018 dataset Official Website | Download Link
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The ICPR MTWI dataset has derived three tasks: Text Line(column) Recognition of Web Images, Text Detection of Web Images, and End to End Text Detection and Recognition of Web Images. The three tasks share the same training data: mtwi_train.zip
; For test data, task1 has test data: mtwi_task1.zip
, and task2/3 share the same test data: mtwi_task2_3.zip
. For now, we will consider and download only the training data mtw_train.zip
.
After downloading the dataset, unzip the file, after which the directory structure should be like as follows (ignoring the archive files):
MTWI-2018
|--- image_train
| |--- <image_name>.jpg
| |--- <image_name>.jpg
| |--- ...
|--- txt_train
| |--- <image_name>.txt
| |--- <image_name>.txt
| |--- ...
To prepare the data for text detection, you can run the following commands:
python tools/dataset_converters/convert.py \
--dataset_name mtwi2018 --task det \
--image_dir path/to/MTWI-2018/image_train/ \
--label_dir path/to/MTWI-2018/txt_train.json \
--output_path path/to/MTWI-2018/det_gt.txt
The generated standard annotation file det_gt.txt
will now be placed under the folder MTWI-2018/
.