Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.
I think Adobe is now offering something like that with the latest Creative Suite, though I don't know if it employs ml. The last Photoshop had that functionality and they seem to have expanded on it.
I was wondering if that is what inspired this thread, the threat of Adobe.
It's been in there for a couple of years (Photoshop CC 2015.5) and it matches installed fonts and fonts available through Typekit. Type > Match Font...
I was wondering if that is what inspired this thread, the threat of Adobe.