Font identification — In context of an Indic script

Font can be used as a notion of similarity amongst multiple documents written in same script. We could automatically retrieve document images with specific font from a huge digital document repository. So Optical Font Recognition could be a useful pre-processing step in an automated questioned document analysis system for sorting documents with similar fonts. We propose a scheme to identify 10 different fonts for an Indic script (Bangla). Curvature-based features are extracted from segmented characters and are fed to a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The classifier determines the font type for each segmented character obtained from a document. Later, font identification for that document is executed on the basis of majority voting amongst 10 different fonts for all characters. Using a Multiple Kernel SVM classifier we obtained 98.5% accuracy from 400 test documents (40 documents for each font type).