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<p>Scene text is text that appears in an image captured by a camera in an outdoor environment. </p><p> The detection and recognition of scene text from camera captured images are <a href="/facts/Computer_vision/Tl2Yyk66">computer vision tasks</a> which became important after smart phones with good cameras became ubiquitous. The text in scene images varies in shape, font, colour and position. The recognition of scene text is further complicated sometimes by non-uniform illumination and focus. </p><p>To improve scene text recognition, the <a href="/facts/International_Conference_on_Document_Analysis_and_Recognition/VuEyVFza">International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition</a> (ICDAR) conducts a robust reading competition once in two years. The competition was held in 2003, 2005 and during every ICDAR conference. International association for pattern recognition (IAPR) has created a list of datasets as Reading systems. </p>