Generate a dataset for binarization of text in images I want to generate a dataset of binarized masks of scene-text images to use them to train a model. I have no previous experience in dataset synthesization especially related to font-rendering.

Can anyone provide me some links to articles/blogs/related-github-projects?
Start with the following paper, and use it to seed a literature search using the usual methods.

Detecting Text in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform.    Boris Epshtein, Eyal Ofek, Yonatan Wexler.  CVPR 2010.