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Your remark about font models makes me wonder whether it might be feasible to extract recurring shapes in a scan to identify the glyphs used and reverse-enginee
by yorwba 6y ago
Your remark about font models makes me wonder whether it might be feasible to extract recurring shapes in a scan to identify the glyphs used and reverse-engineer a font from that.
- ajot 6y agoAdobe has a tool for that, and Nate Craun (who has an aging but still amazing tutorial on scanning books from Linux) had made one too. https://www.natecraun.net/projects/smoothscan.html https://www.natecraun.net/projects/smoothscan.html