SynthText

SynthText is uploaded to Baidu Cloud link, extract code tb5g

1. download from link above and unzip it SynthText.zip
2. transform .mat ground truth to .txt format in gt: $ python dataset/synth-text/make_list.py
3. make training list by running: $ ls data/SynthText/gt/ > data/SynthText/image_list.txt (see issue #24)
4. pretrain using synthtext:

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$GPUID python train.py synthtext_pretrain --dataset synth-text --viz --max_epoch 1 --batch_size 8