Font recognition based on global texture analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a new texture analysis based approach towards font recognition. Existing methods are typically based on local features that often require connected components analysis. In our new method, we take the document as an image containing some special textures, and font recognition as texture identification. The method is content independent and involves no local feature analysis. Global features are extracted by texture analysis. We apply the well-established 2D Gabor filtering technique to extract such features and a weighted Euclidean distance classifier to fulfil the recognition task. Experiments are made using 6,000 samples of 24 frequently used Chinese fonts (6 typefaces combined with 4 styles) and very promising results are achieved.