# construct the argument parser and parse the arguments
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-i", "--image", type=str,
	help="path to input image")
ap.add_argument("-east", "--east", type=str,
	help="path to input EAST text detector")
ap.add_argument("-c", "--min-confidence", type=float, default=0.5,
	help="minimum probability required to inspect a region")
ap.add_argument("-w", "--width", type=int, default=320,
	help="nearest multiple of 32 for resized width")
ap.add_argument("-e", "--height", type=int, default=320,
	help="nearest multiple of 32 for resized height")
ap.add_argument("-p", "--padding", type=float, default=0.0,
	help="amount of padding to add to each border of ROI")
args = vars(ap.parse_args())