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Font recognition software

I have a CAD font (I mean, a normal font, but of the kind usually used in technical drawings) in a paper printout, and a drawing file which is missing that particular font.

Before calling the other side, for them to send it ... what would be a good place on the web or good applications for detecting based on a few characters what font could it be?
(you know, those things that detect the font based on an image sample)

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@techie007 - Somewhat, yes. Unfortunatelly, the solutions mentioned there have already been mentioned in here as well, and they don't work for me, so I'll wait a bit more to see if anyone's found something better in the meantime. – ldigas Oct 28 '11 at 1:51
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I have had good results from WhatTheFont where you upload a small sample image.

I have also used Identifont which works by asking a series of questions.

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Yup, that's the only one I tried. No luck unfortunatelly. All it gave were "artistic" fonts as search results. – ldigas Oct 25 '11 at 21:15
@Idigas: Have you tried Identifont? (answer updated) – RedGrittyBrick Oct 25 '11 at 21:18
Good site. I haven't found that one. Unfortunatelly, it's font recognition mechanism is completely unusable for my case :( Thanks for the effort though. – ldigas Oct 25 '11 at 22:04
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