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arxiv: 2605.17309 · v1 · pith:LQTGLFZKnew · submitted 2026-05-17 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

StyleText: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Stylized Scene Text Inpainting

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StyleText dataset of 28,518 triplets enables models to inpaint scene text while preserving style and improving legibility.

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The paper presents StyleText, a large-scale collection of image-mask-prompt triplets designed for training and testing models that fill in text within photographs without disrupting the surrounding visual style. The dataset is created through an automated process using language models to generate prompts, generative AI to create source images with special caching for consistency, optical character recognition to ensure semantic quality, and mask-based techniques to prepare training examples. It is organized into scene families to allow fair comparisons under the same background conditions. The authors also provide a standardized way to measure success using OCR accuracy for text readability and CLIP scores for style matching. Training a specific baseline model on this data results in better text recognition performance compared to starting from scratch, all while keeping the scene look intact.

Core claim

StyleText contains 28,518 image-mask-prompt triplets grouped into 9,932 scene families. It is constructed with an automated pipeline that combines LLM prompt templating, Flux-based source generation with key-value cache injection, OCR-based semantic filtering, polygon mask extraction, and mask-conditioned FluxFill augmentation. A FluxFill+LoRA baseline trained on StyleText improves OCR accuracy substantially over initialization while maintaining scene style consistency, establishing a strong reference point for future comparisons.

What carries the argument

The automated pipeline for dataset construction using LLM prompt templating combined with Flux-based image generation, KV cache injection for consistency, OCR filtering, and mask-conditioned augmentation.

If this is right

  • Improved OCR accuracy on inpainted text becomes achievable with models trained on this dataset.
  • Scene style consistency can be maintained during text inpainting as shown by the baseline.
  • The evaluation protocol with normalized OCR metrics and CLIP similarity allows reproducible comparisons.
  • Controlled testing within scene families reduces variability in assessments of model performance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Future inpainting methods could build on this data to handle more complex scenes or different languages.
  • The scene family structure might help in studying how context affects text style matching.
  • Integrating this benchmark with other vision tasks like object detection could reveal broader benefits.

Load-bearing premise

The automated pipeline produces high-quality data without systematic biases or artifacts that affect model training and evaluation.

What would settle it

If retraining the FluxFill+LoRA baseline on StyleText fails to improve OCR word accuracy or character error rate over the uninitialized model, or if style consistency drops in independent tests.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17309 by Aleksandr Simonyan, Nipun Jindal.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Dataset examples from StyleText. The inserted words [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Scene-group consistency example. The same visual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Representative sample grid from StyleText, showing the diversity of visual backgrounds, typography styles, phrase lengths, and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: End-to-end StyleText generation pipeline. (a) Prompted source generation with Flux and StableFlow-style KV injection produces [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison before (top) and after (bottom) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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We present StyleText, a large-scale dataset and benchmark for localized scene-text inpainting with style preservation. StyleText contains 28,518 image-mask-prompt triplets grouped into 9,932 scene families, enabling controlled evaluation of text legibility and visual consistency under shared scene context. We construct the dataset with an automated pipeline that combines LLM prompt templating, Flux-based source generation with key-value (KV) cache injection, OCR-based semantic filtering, polygon mask extraction, and mask-conditioned FluxFill augmentation. We define a reproducible evaluation protocol using normalized OCR metrics (word accuracy and character error rate) and CLIP image-image similarity with explicit preprocessing. A FluxFill+LoRA baseline trained on StyleText improves OCR accuracy substantially over initialization while maintaining scene style consistency, establishing a strong reference point for future comparisons.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces StyleText, a dataset of 28,518 image-mask-prompt triplets grouped into 9,932 scene families for stylized scene text inpainting. It is constructed via an automated pipeline using LLM prompt templating, Flux-based source generation with KV cache injection, OCR-based semantic filtering, polygon mask extraction, and mask-conditioned FluxFill augmentation. The authors define a reproducible evaluation protocol based on normalized OCR word accuracy, character error rate, and CLIP image-image similarity, and report that a FluxFill+LoRA baseline trained on the dataset substantially improves OCR accuracy over initialization while preserving scene style consistency.

Significance. If the dataset proves high-quality and free of systematic biases from the generation pipeline, this work would provide a valuable large-scale benchmark for localized text inpainting that preserves visual style, addressing a gap in existing scene-text datasets. The reproducible protocol and baseline reference point are positive contributions for future comparisons in computer vision.

major comments (1)
  1. The central claim of dataset quality and unbiased evaluation rests on the automated pipeline (LLM templating + Flux generation + OCR filtering + FluxFill). The manuscript should include quantitative analysis showing that OCR filtering does not systematically drop hard stylized cases and that the resulting triplets do not correlate with Flux-family artifacts in a way that inflates the reported baseline OCR gains. Without such checks, the improvement may be partly circular rather than evidence of genuine inpainting progress.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract states a 'substantial' OCR improvement but provides no numerical values, error bars, or ablation details; these should be added to the results section with explicit before/after metrics for the baseline.
  2. Clarify the exact preprocessing steps and normalization procedure for the CLIP image-image similarity metric to ensure full reproducibility of the evaluation protocol.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the potential value of StyleText as a benchmark. We address the single major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: The central claim of dataset quality and unbiased evaluation rests on the automated pipeline (LLM templating + Flux generation + OCR filtering + FluxFill). The manuscript should include quantitative analysis showing that OCR filtering does not systematically drop hard stylized cases and that the resulting triplets do not correlate with Flux-family artifacts in a way that inflates the reported baseline OCR gains. Without such checks, the improvement may be partly circular rather than evidence of genuine inpainting progress.

    Authors: We agree that additional quantitative checks are warranted to strengthen claims about dataset quality and to rule out circularity in the reported baseline gains. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection under Dataset Construction that reports: (1) a comparison of stylization difficulty proxies (OCR confidence distribution, background entropy, and font-variation entropy) before versus after the OCR semantic filter, demonstrating that the filter does not disproportionately remove low-confidence or highly stylized examples; (2) a correlation analysis between per-triplet baseline OCR improvement and measurable Flux-family artifacts (e.g., via LPIPS distance to nearest training image and visual artifact classifiers), showing that gains are not driven by artifact correlation. These analyses will be performed on the released dataset splits and the code will be updated to reproduce them. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in dataset construction or baseline evaluation

full rationale

The paper presents a dataset construction pipeline using external components (LLM templating, Flux generation with KV cache, OCR filtering, polygon masks, and FluxFill augmentation) and reports empirical results from training a FluxFill+LoRA baseline that improves OCR accuracy over initialization while preserving style consistency. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce the reported improvements or evaluation metrics to inputs defined by the authors themselves. The evaluation protocol relies on standard normalized OCR and CLIP metrics with explicit preprocessing, making the central claims self-contained empirical observations rather than derivations that collapse by construction to the pipeline inputs or prior author work.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claims rest on the assumption that the multi-stage automated generation and filtering pipeline yields clean, style-consistent training data and that the reported baseline improvement reflects genuine generalization rather than pipeline artifacts.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLM prompt templating combined with Flux generation and OCR filtering produces realistic and diverse stylized scene text examples suitable for training.
    Invoked in the dataset construction pipeline described in the abstract.

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