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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by chc on Sunday April 30, 2017 @11:47AM (#14232071)
This certainly sounds like an AI application. Do you have some reason to think it isn't?
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by hk__2 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:11PM (#14232580)
It uses OCR then compares what it find with everything in the database. It doesn’t “learn” anything from what it finds; in fact you can’t even train it because it uses a static database.
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by nom on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:31PM (#14233388)
Yes, it is a necessary part of an AI, but I still wouldn't dare to call it an "AI Algorithm". Overuse of the term poisons the actual AI research field, it's only use is to aid click bait.
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by rsrsrs86 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:16PM (#14234167)
It is AI, it is just that not everything called AI is really interesting anymore. This should have attracted interest in the 80's.
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