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RCTW-17 Dataset

Data Downloading

The RCTW dataset Official Website | Download Link

The training set is split into two zip files train_images.zip.001 and train_images.zip.002. The annotations are *_gts.zip files.

After downloading and unzipping the images and annotations, collect the images into a single folder e.g. train_images/, after which the directory structure should be like as follows (ignoring the archive files): 

RCTW-17
  |--- train_images
  |    |--- <image_name>.jpg
  |    |--- <image_name>.jpg
  |    |--- ...
  |--- train_gts
  |    |--- <image_name>.txt
  |    |--- <image_name>.txt
  |    |--- ...

Data Preparation

For Detection Task

To prepare the data for text detection, you can run the following commands:

python tools/dataset_converters/convert.py \
    --dataset_name rctw17 --task det \
    --image_dir path/to/RCTW-17/train_images/ \
    --label_dir path/to/RCTW-17/train_gts \
    --output_path path/to/RCTW-17/det_gt.txt

The generated standard annotation file det_gt.txt will now be placed under the folder RCTW-17/.

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