How to detect Text Area from image?

Question

i want to detect text area from image as a preprocessing step for tesseract OCR engine, the engine works well when the input is text only but when the input image contains

Answer 1

In the Current time, the best way to detect the text is by using EAST (An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector)

The EAST pipeline is capable of predicting words and lines of text at arbitrary orientations on 720p images, and furthermore, can run at 13 FPS, according to the authors.

EAST quick start tutorial can be found here

EAST paper can be found here