Contents

• Documentation
• Installation
• Usage
• Advanced Usage
• Datasets
• Citation
• License

Documentation

The documentation is available at https://clovaai.github.io/synthtiger/.

You can check API reference in this documentation.

Installation

SynthTIGER requires python>=3.6 and libraqm.

To install SynthTIGER from PyPI:

$ pip install synthtiger

If you see a dependency error when you install or run SynthTIGER, install dependencies.

Usage

# Set environment variable (for macOS)
$ export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES

usage: synthtiger [-h] [-o DIR] [-c NUM] [-w NUM] [-s NUM] [-v] SCRIPT NAME [CONFIG]

positional arguments:
  SCRIPT                Script file path.
  NAME                  Template class name.
  CONFIG                Config file path.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o DIR, --output DIR  Directory path to save data.
  -c NUM, --count NUM   Number of output data. [default: 100]
  -w NUM, --worker NUM  Number of workers. If 0, It generates data in the main process. [default: 0]
  -s NUM, --seed NUM    Random seed. [default: None]
  -v, --verbose         Print error messages while generating data.

Examples

SynthTIGER text images

# horizontal
synthtiger -o results -w 4 -v examples/synthtiger/template.py SynthTiger examples/synthtiger/config_horizontal.yaml

# vertical
synthtiger -o results -w 4 -v examples/synthtiger/template.py SynthTiger examples/synthtiger/config_vertical.yaml

• images: a directory containing images.
• gt.txt: a file containing text labels.
• coords.txt: a file containing bounding boxes of characters with text effect.
• glyph_coords.txt: a file containing bounding boxes of characters without text effect.
• masks: a directory containing mask images with text effect.
• glyph_masks: a directory containing mask images without text effect.

Multiline text images

synthtiger -o results -w 4 -v examples/multiline/template.py Multiline examples/multiline/config.yaml

• images: a directory containing images.
• gt.txt: a file containing text labels.

Advanced Usage

Non-Latin language data generation

1. Prepare corpus

   txt format, line by line (example).

2. Prepare fonts

   See font customization for more details.

3. Edit corpus path and font path in config file (example)

4. Run synthtiger

Font customization

1. Prepare fonts

   ttf/otf format (example).

2. Extract renderable charsets

   python tools/extract_font_charset.py -w 4 fonts/

   This script extracts renderable charsets for all font files (example).

   Text files are generated in the input path with the same names as the fonts.

3. Edit font path in config file (example)

4. Run synthtiger

Colormap customization

1. Prepare images

   jpg/jpeg/png/bmp format.

2. Create colormaps

   python tools/create_colormap.py --max_k 3 -w 4 images/ colormap.txt

   This script creates colormaps for all image files (example).

3. Edit colormap path in config file (example)

4. Run synthtiger

Template customization

You can implement custom templates by inheriting the base template.

from synthtiger import templates


class MyTemplate(templates.Template):
    def __init__(self, config=None):
        # initialize template.

    def generate(self):
        # generate data.

    def init_save(self, root):
        # initialize something before save.

    def save(self, root, data, idx):
        # save data to specific path.

    def end_save(self, root):
        # finalize something after save.

Datasets

SynthTIGER is available for download at google drive.

Dataset was split into several smaller files. Please download all files and run following command.

# for Linux, macOS
cat synthtiger_v1.0.zip.* > synthtiger_v1.0.zip

# for Windows
copy /b synthtiger_v1.0.zip.* synthtiger_v1.0.zip

synthtiger_v1.0.zip (36G) (md5: 5b5365f4fe15de24e403a9256079be70)

• Original paper version.
  • Used MJ and ST label.

synthtiger_v1.1.zip (38G) (md5: b2757a7e2b5040b14ed64c473533b592)

• Used MJ and ST lexicon instead of MJ and ST label.
  • resources/corpus/mjsynth.txt
  • resources/corpus/synthtext.txt
• Fixed a bug that applies transformation twice on curved text.
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly converts grayscale to RGB.

Structure

The structure of the dataset is as follows. The dataset contains 10M images.

gt.txt
images/
    0/
        0.jpg
        1.jpg
        ...
        9998.jpg
        9999.jpg
    1/
    ...
    998/
    999/

The format of gt.txt is as follows. Image path and label are separated by tab. (<image_path>\t<label>)

images/0/0.jpg	10
images/0/1.jpg	date:
...
images/999/9999998.jpg	STUFFIER
images/999/9999999.jpg	Re:

Citation

@inproceedings{yim2021synthtiger,
  title={SynthTIGER: Synthetic Text Image GEneratoR Towards Better Text Recognition Models},
  author={Yim, Moonbin and Kim, Yoonsik and Cho, Han-Cheol and Park, Sungrae},
  booktitle={International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  pages={109--124},
  year={2021},
  organization={Springer}
}

License

SynthTIGER
Copyright (c) 2021-present NAVER Corp.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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THE SOFTWARE.

The following directories and their subdirectories are licensed the same as their origins. Please refer to NOTICE

docs/
resources/font/