Font recognition ?

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John Fitzsimons

I seem to remember quite some time ago something like this mentioned
here. Is there a program and/or web page that can help with font
recognition ? Suppose I see a nice font on a site that uses CSS.
Can I "cut and paste" an example to find out the font name ?

Regards, John.
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Hello, John!
You wrote on Sat, 27 May 2006 22:07:54 +1000:

Is there a program and/or web page that can help with font
recognition ?
Click to expand...

IMHO best way to know name of an unknown font is posting image on
alt.binaries.fonts where there's lot of people giving a great help.
 
Some or all of the below may be off topic.

WhattheFont from www.myfonts is super cool but I think there should be
an identification search engine for any kind of thing. You upload the
picture and with pattern recognition like face recognition it returns
the closest match along with identifying bits, encyclopedia like
description and maybe where to buy info.

Ricardo Neiberger Cabral has a website here (http://www.pyxor.com/) and
an Open Source programs imgseek and imgseeknet here:
http://www.imgseek.net/, that are a start.

Another Website is Retrievr:http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/. Also I
found a French search engine that lets you find similar images visually
to one you've found with a standard word search: http://en.cydral.com/
although the visual similarity system is not currently working (it used
to).

Even another one is demoed here: http://corbis.ltutech.com/.

I could envisage Wikipedia having an engine for its images. That would
be a good start too.
 
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