title: Automatic font recognition with Python
body: <p>As you may have heard of, there is an online font recognition service call WhatTheFont</p>
  
  <p>I'm curious about the tech behind this tool. I think basically we can seperate this into two parts:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Generate images from font files of various format, refer to <a href="http://www.fileinfo.com/filetypes/font" rel="noreferrer">http://www.fileinfo.com/filetypes/font</a> for a list of font file extensions.</p></li>
  <li><p>Compare submitted image with all generated images</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I appreciate you share some advice or python code to implement two steps above.</p>