Toward Font Identification for Printed Chinese Characters

Abstract

Authors of printed documents often strategically change fonts from one phrase to anther to attract attention of the readers or signify special functions of the phrases. Typical optical optical character recognition(OCR)systems,however,remove font-related information from the scanned image while attempting to maximize the recognition accuracy and system performance. Consequently, we lose the font cues after we scan and recognize a printed Chinese document with such OCR software.