<p>I have been working on text detection and recognition for almost two months and new on this field. So far, I have fine-tuned, tested, and trained several text detection/recognition methods, such as <strong>CRAFT</strong>, <strong>TextFuseNet</strong>, <strong>CharNet</strong> for detection, and <a href="https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>clova.ai</strong></a> model for recognition. Now I come up with this question:</p>
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<li>Can object detection approaches(yolov5,efficientDet) be used to solve text/detection problems?</li>
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2021-01-25T13:01:23.330Z
Hello. Let me try to understand if I understood your concerns/problem. You have used **text** detection methods for **text** detection. Now, you want to use **object** detection methods for **text** detection. You're asking if that will work? If this is correct, why do you want to use object detection methods/models for text detection?
nbro
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2021-01-26T01:20:43.700Z
Hello. It's a suggestion from my supervisor, and now I am stuck with these ideas. I wanted to know if there is someone already experienced this kind of task.
yakhyo
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2021-01-26T02:00:37.633Z
Ok, then rather than asking "Is object detection right way for text detection/recognition?", it would be better to ask "can object detection approaches be used to solve text/detection problems?".
nbro
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Can object detection approaches be used to solve text/detection problems?
yakhyo
# Can object detection approaches be used to solve text/detection problems?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-25)

I have been working on text detection and recognition for almost two months and new on this field. So far, I have fine-tuned, tested, and trained several text detection/recognition methods, such as **CRAFT**, **TextFuseNet**, **CharNet** for detection, and [**clova.ai**](https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark) model for recognition. Now I come up with this question:

* Can object detection approaches(yolov5,efficientDet) be used to solve text/detection problems?

**Tags:** machine-learning, object-detection, object-recognition, text-detection

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hello. Let me try to understand if I understood your concerns/problem. You have used **text** detection methods for **text** detection. Now, you want to use **object** detection methods for **text** detection. You're asking if that will work? If this is correct, why do you want to use object detection methods/models for text detection?  
> **username_0**: Hello. It's a suggestion from my supervisor, and now I am stuck with these ideas. I wanted to know if there is someone already experienced this kind of task.  
> **username_1**: Ok, then rather than asking "Is object detection right way for text detection/recognition?", it would be better to ask "can object detection approaches be used to solve text/detection problems?".  

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