Implementing Video OCR with the SWT Technique
for Video Indexing and Analysis
Published research focused on extending traditional OCR to extract textual information from video content for efficient indexing and analysis. The system was developed in Python, integrating modules including OpenCV2, PyTesseract, and a speech-recognition library.
The pipeline involved video indexing, text segmentation and recognition via the Stroke Width Transform (SWT) + Tesseract, and parallel speech recognition using MoviePy to generate searchable digital transcripts.