9. A stroke width based text detection system, comprising a component that directs stroke width based text detection of text in a received image, the component including: a stroke width transform generator that generates a representation of the received image, the representation including pixels that are associated with stroke widths of components of the received image; a connected component identifier that identifies connected components of the received image by filtering out portions of the pixels, by applying metrics related to stroke width, so as to eliminate portions that are at least unlikely be associated with text; and a text identifier that detects text of the received image, based on results of the identifying, by building a multi-nodal graph that is a string of nodes each of which is connected to all other nodes and severing connections between nodes that do not belong to a same line of text.
15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the connected component identifier filters by determining whether adjacent pixels are associated with the same stroke width.