Question

I would like to ask you if you know any good text localization algorithms that would detect text candidates in an image (for my OCR project)

Essentially, after ‘applying’ this algorithm I would like to be able to get regions (bounding boxes) with character candidates, e.g.

I am trying to find something that I might use but even if I find something it’s most likely in an extremely difficult paper with really high maths that needs to be applied. I have already encountered MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) or Gradient Vector Flow method but both of them are quite difficult for me (although I understand a lot in maths I still have hard time figuring these out)

Answer 1

These may give you some pointers:

1. Algorithm to detect presence of text on image
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/850717/what-are-some-popular-ocr-algorithms?rq=1
3. What are good algorithms for vehicle license plate detection?