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Help with finding out different fonts

  • 02-05-2011 7:49pm
    #1
    jhfde123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    i might be in the wrong forum but i was just wondering how would i be able to find out what font/fonts are on certain pages that i have and stuff.

    Like would there be any software that i could download maybe then u upload the scanned page to the programme it scans it and tells u the font. Something like that ???

    I have already tried to compare the papers i have with different fonts with microsoft word and no luck.. i know its not the usual fonts anyways like times new roman

    any help would be appreciated thanks


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  • #2
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    It's not exactly what you want I know but I use amp font viewer to compare fonts:
    http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

    Other then a visual inspection I'm not sure of anything that would help you. Have you tried scanning the document in if you've OCR software to see if it can recognise the fonts?


  • #3
    jhfde123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭jhfde123


    cookie1977 wrote: »
    It's not exactly what you want I know but I use amp font viewer to compare fonts:
    http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

    Other then a visual inspection I'm not sure of anything that would help you. Have you tried scanning the document in if you've OCR software to see if it can recognise the fonts?

    no i havnt tried that but i think the link u gave should should do the trick thanks :)


  • #4
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    You're welcome


  • #5
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    sorry to cut across OP but cookie1977 is it possible to edit a scanned doc wit that software?


  • #6
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    No that software is solely for comparing fonts. It isnt OCR software Im afraid, sorry. Are you looking for said software? Microsoft office comes with some document imaging or Onenote which both can do OCR. Or there's tesseract-ocr, which is free:

    http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/


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  • #7
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    yeah was thinking microsoft imaging but will try that one,cheers cookie1977


  • #8
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    There's FontMatch http://www.stretchedout.com/products/fontmatch/fontmatch.php

    which will attempt to compare your scanned font to others on your computer for a best match.

    But if you don't have the big galleries of fonts installed by Photoshop / Corel etc on your PC, there are online sites which will attempt to recognise the font for you.
    http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/


  • #9
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    yes I forgot about "what the font"


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