title: Stroke Width Transform (SWT) implementation (Java, C#...)
body: <p>I recently discovered the stroke width transform, as documented in the following research paper:</p>
  
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  <li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5540041" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Detecting Text in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform</a>.  Boris Epshtein, Yonathan Wexler, and Eyal Ofek.  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.</li>
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  <p>The algorithm is intended for detecting and extracting text from natural scenes.</p>
  
  <p>However, I could not find any implementation, and from the paper I find it hard to determine all the details regarding the algorithm so I can implement it in practice. Does anyone know if this algorithm is implemented and used in practice in a system? Is there a C# or Java implementation of it?</p>