A Novel Procedure for Font Recognition through Deep Learning

In this paper, a novel font recognition system, which works through deep learning is introduced. This novel recognition procedure is based on letter by letter font classification through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The font that is statistically recognized more frequently than the others is reported as the font of the entire studied text. Knowing the font of an image document can enhance the initial letter recognition in a feedback loop. Alternatively, the recognized font can be used as a prior knowledge, to enhance the performance of another Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system.