I’ve always wondered whether you couldn’t build a not-fully-ML app for screen-font recognition, that just takes a bunch of fonts, renders out every individual g

I’ve always wondered whether you couldn’t build a not-fully-ML app for screen-font recognition, that just takes a bunch of fonts, renders out every individual glyph at every size, trims them, converts them to an alpha mask, and then generates an indexible image fingerprint of said alpha mask. The OCR software would then just need to be smart enough to recognize “things that look like glyphs”, and put bounding boxes around them; and everything from there could be implemented in logic, rather than a model. (Just apply the same transforms to the thing in the bounding box, and then search the fingerprint DB.)