Analysing character shapes by string matching techniques

J. Hertz, R.D. Hersch

Electronic Publishing, Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6, No. 3, Sept. 1993, 261-272

Preliminary attempts at automatic analysis and synthesis of typographic shapes are described. String matching techniques are used to recover implicit relationships between character parts. A knowledge base describing local character shape parts is created and is used in order to propagate local shape modifications across different characters.

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