Under CopyrightLidke, J.T.J.T.Lidke2022-03-0720.1.20112010https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/27867210.24406/publica-fhg-278672The main contribution of this diploma thesis is the introduction of a new OFR method and its evaluation on a huge database of 9809 fonts, which exceeds to the best of our knowledge the size of the largest font database, mentioned in related works by more than 3.5 times. Further, we explore importance of input length and content with respect to recognition rate.en005006629Hierarchical font recognitiondiploma thesis