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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by nom on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:38PM (#14232355)
Please stop using "AI" to describe simple algorithms like this. This has nothing to do with the field of artificial intelligence. The code just extracts individual characters from the image and compares them visually to a prepared database of known fonts, using the hamming distance. You wouldn't call OCR an "AI algorithm", would you?

Edit: "nothing to do" is not accurate, but AI is definitely not an appropriate term to use here

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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by keppanaviimen on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:45PM (#14232399)
"The code just extracts" please. Do you think extracting letters from a image is a joke? There is a engine in development since 1985 for doing that. http://www.kloover.com/publications/Kluever_-_OCR_using_ANN....
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by nom on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:11PM (#14232584)
Yes, I know it's a hard problem. Tesseract (the OCR library that is used in this project) is in development since 1985, but even google doesn't dare to call it an AI algorithm. OCR is of course a part that is required to build an artificial intelligence, but the term "AI" is just to overused nowadays and calling every single algorithm capable of recognizing something in some data is poison to the field itself. Solving AI is a huuge and daring problem and we should use the term appropriately.
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by hk__2 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:12PM (#14232586)
It’s not a joke, but it’s not AI either.
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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by GordonS on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:51PM (#14232456)
> You wouldn't call OCR an "AI algorithm", would you?

It depends on how it was implemented; if it used a neural network for example, then yes, I would

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Re:Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text i... by rsrsrs86 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:14PM (#14234153)
This is a canonical AI problem. This is a task usually performed by human beings that was found to be excellently performed by computers. It falls within the grand field of computer vision. It is a solved and trivial problem nowadays, but is sure is AI.
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