text detection example

[engineerchange]

Thank you for porting over this wonderful package!

I wanted to gauge what text detection features are available, namely localization and what options are available. A quick search for "text localization" on r-bloggers.com comes up with next to nothing, so I do think this is a needed functionality in the community.

I don't see any examples in the vignettes. I do see #17, however - are there any plans for further documentation/addition of opencv's text-based features into this R implementation?

[jwijffels]

Text detection is a huge field.
Maybe this is what you are looking for https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/image.textlinedetector/index.html
https://github.com/DIGI-VUB/image.textlinedetector

[engineerchange]

Thanks, this other package is interesting. Both this package and the package you linked have an unclear license/copyright. Can you expand on what license(s) these fall under? Since this is a port of opencv, shouldn't this package have a FOSS license?

[jeroen]

The code is licensed under MIT:

opencv/DESCRIPTION

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License: MIT + file LICENSE

This license only applies to the R bindings code from this repository. We do not bundle any upstream opencv code with this R package.

[jeroen]

We are open to contributes to this package by the way :-)

[engineerchange]

The code is licensed under MIT:

opencv/DESCRIPTION

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License: MIT + file LICENSE

This license only applies to the R bindings code from this repository. We do not bundle any upstream opencv code with this R package.

Okay, thank you! The "license" link on the GitHub page says something different:
https://github.com/ropensci/opencv/blob/master/LICENSE