Despite ubiquitous claims that optical character recognition (OCR) is a "solved problem," many categories of documents continue to break modern OCR software such as docu...
This paper addresses the problem of font retrieval using a query-by-example paradigm: given a font, retrieve the the most visually similar fonts. We describe a font by (a) renderi...
Outline font technology has long been established as the standard way to represent typefaces, allowing characters to be represented independently of print size and resolution. Alt...
This paper introduces a multifont classification scheme to help recognition of multifont and multisize characters. It uses typographical attributes such as ascenders, descenders a...
Abstract. Our component-based parametrisable font system is a newly developed font description and reproduction technology. It incorporates for each basic character shape a softwar...