Texts as Lines: Text Detection with Weak Supervision

Algorithm 1

Apex-edge expansion algorithm.

	Input: : Segmentation result
	Output: : Text instances
	for do
	if then
	while do
	Dilation ()//expansion operation
	Mean ()
	//get the average score of the extended region
	if or then
	Enqueue//push result into
	end if
	end while
	end if
	end for