Separating characters in a font file

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Re: Separating characters in a font file

Post by snibgo »

Separating characters in an arbitray font, even if we restrict to the Latin alphabet, isn't trivial.

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convert -pointsize 250 -font times-new-roman label:fi chars_fi.png
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I suppose OCR programs contain special-case code to handle such ligatures.
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