I have millions of images, and I am able to use OCR with pytesseract to perform descent text extraction, but it takes too long to process all of the images.  
Thus I would like to determine if an image simply contains text or not, and if it doesn't, i wouldn't have to perform OCR on it. Ideally this method would have a high recall. 
I was thinking about building a SVM or some machine learning model to help detect, but I was hoping if anyone new of a method to quickly determine if an object contains text or not.
Unfortunately there is no way to tell if an image has text in it, without performing OCR of some kind on it.
You could build a machine learning model that handles this, however keep in mind it would still need to process the image as well.
Quick way to classify if an image contains text or not