The Street View Text Dataset (SVT)¶

Data Downloading¶

The Street View Text Dataset (SVT) Download Link

Please download the data from the website above and unzip the file. After unzipping the file, the data structure should be like:

svt1
 ├── img
 │   ├── 00_00.jpg
 │   ├── 00_01.jpg
 │   ├── 00_02.jpg
 │   ├── 00_03.jpg
 │   ├── ...
 ├── test.xml
 └── train.xml

Data Preparation¶

For Recognition task¶

To prepare the data for text recognition, you can run the following command:

python tools/dataset_converters/convert.py \
    --dataset_name  svt --task rec \
    --image_dir path/to/svt1/ \
    --label_dir path/to/svt1/train.xml \
    --output_path path/to/svt1/rec_train_gt.txt

Then you can have a folder cropped_images/ and an annotation file rec_train_gt.txt under the folder svt1/.

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