The present disclosure discloses method and text detection system for detecting text in digital engineering drawings. The text detection system receives digital engineering drawing, where digital image is converted to binary image. One or more lines inclined at one or more angles are detected based on pre-defined parameters, where one or more lines are removed from binary image. The text detection system determines image contours in binary image based on connected pixels with similar characteristics and identify one or more regions in binary image, to be non-text regions based on height, width, and pixel density, of corresponding image contours and predefined minimum height, minimum width, maximum height, maximum width, and predefined pixel density, where non-text regions are removed from binary image. The text detection system determines text regions in binary image based on removal of non-text regions and processing text regions to detect text in binary image of engineering drawing.