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The detection of the font style, point size, etc. of a text is an obvious way to improve the capabilities of text recognition algorithms. The ApOFIS system has been designed in order to satisfy such a requirement. It adopts an a priori font identification approach where the recognition of a text font is done without considering the characters that appear in the text. In ApOFIS, a font is characterized especially by its family, weight, slope and size. Features used in the system represent global aspects of text line images. They have been extracted essentially from projection profiles and from connected components bounding boxes. Statistical tests have revealed that these features follow approximately normal laws so that parameter estimation is used in learning.
A multivariate Bayesian classifier, based on these features, has been designed for font recognition and applied on a base of 240 font models created from a training set of texts written with these fonts. On text lines having the same length as those used for learning, the system allows to discriminate fonts with an average accuracy of 96.5% for top choice and 98.3% within the two top choices.
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Zramdini, A., Ingold, R. (1995). ApOFIS: an A priori optical font identification system. In: Braccini, C., DeFloriani, L., Vernazza, G. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60298-4_309
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