ScanFont 5.0

Transforms graphical resources into fully working font files available for installation in Windows or in various apps. The UI simplifies the font creation based on the available tools. There is the possibility to add shapes as extra items when creating the fonts.

ScanFont

Turn graphics into fonts. Version 5.0 for Mac and Windows.

Put a signature, logo or symbol into a font

Turn someone's handwriting into a font

Convert old print lettering or letterhead into modern electronic format

Create symbol fonts

Six simple steps:

Step 1. Open any bitmap image or a vector illustration — EPS, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, directly from a scanner, on Mac OS X also PDF

Step 2. Improve and adjust the image using transformations, filters and effects — remove background, adjust brightness/contrast and hue/saturation, rotate, sharpen, remove noise, blur

Step 3. Automatically separate the image into single character shapes — using several presets and customizable precision

Step 4. Adjust character baselines and remove any unwanted shapes

Step 5. Export the character shapes into an outline font editor — using a fine-tuneable autotracer, optimized for font creation

Step 6. Finalize and generate a Type 1, TrueType or OpenType font — using TypeTool, FontLab Studio or AsiaFont Studio.

It includes many powerful automation tools which speed the process so that complete fonts can be prepared from a collection of bitmap images in only minutes.

Scanfont includes a complete set of bitmap editing tools for tidying up images before they are converted and a very flexible set of options for the conversion making it possible to accommodate almost any image.