Abstract
Optical font type identification is one of the important but often neglected problem. Due to the use of different font types OCR engine is not able to recognize the characters properly and accuracy of the system may decrease. It is not possible to reproduce old documents without knowledge of font type. Major use of different font styles in documents is to emphasis on some part of document so that any reader can notice them easily. In a document, font type changes may occur at particular points like titles, indexes, references, etc. They may be done by choosing another typeface, or changing the style or the size of the same typeface. Major applications of font type identification are document reproduction, creation of new font types, Document indexing and information retrieval, improving the recognition rate of an OCR engine. This paper presents an approach for font type identification of 5 Hindi font types as MarathiVakr, Shusha05, Devanagari New, Shusha02, Prem chand ki kahaniyan (Type writer written old book)
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