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Identify Font in PDF [2024 Guide for Windows & MAC]
Check out the detailed step-by-step guide to using these tools below
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Updated onMarch 14, 2024
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A good font can improve the reader experience, and some fonts are just too eye-catching. If you ever come across a PDF file with an excellent font and wonder how to identify a font inPDF, this is the article you need.
There are a few ways to find fonts in PDF formats. You can either use offline PDF programs like Adobe Acrobat Reader or use web apps to identify fonts in a PDF file.
In this article, we explore how to recognize fonts from PDF files. These tools are compatible with bothMacandWindows computers.
How to identify fonts from scanned PDF?
Soda PDF– Best tool to identify fonts
Soda PDF is one of the best PDF tools in the industry you can use it to create, edit, and customize PDFs.
Besides these features, you can use this software to identify fonts, and here’s how you can easily do it:
Other than identifying the document’s fonts, you can customize the content and layout of any PDF, insert images, links, page marks, and many more.
Soda PDF
Adobe Acrobat Reader– Versatile software
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a popular PDF reader that is available on multiple platforms. Apart from allowing you to read and edit PDF documents, it has some nifty not-so-known features.
One such feature is the ability to detect PDF file fonts. Here is how to do it.
The Fonts will display all the details about the font used in the PDF document. If there is more than one font, it should display all the fonts in a list with font type and encoding.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
MyFonts– Easy to use
Don’t want to download a PDF reader app just to identify a font? MyFonts is an online font for instant font identification powered by the world’s largest font collection website MonoType.
Depending on the font type, you may have to purchase it before you can use it in your document.
⇒Get MyFonts
Artwork Font Finder– Intuitive interface
Artwork Font Finder is similar to WhatTheFont; however, it allows you to upload PDF documents instead of an image to identify the font.
Apart from identifying fonts, it can also help you find color information as well as measurement for the page.
⇒Get Artwork Font Finder
PDF-XChange Editor– Premium tool
PDF-Xchange Editor is a feature-rich PDF reader available for the Windows platform. It is a premium tool in two versions: PDF-Xchange Editor and PDF-Xchange Editor Plus.
If you have the PDF-Xchange Editor installed, here is how to identify fonts using the same.
⇒Get PDF-Xchange Editor
Now that you no longer wonder whether a font can be extracted from a PDF, knowing what fonts are used in a document can help you improve your documents. You can identify the font in PDF using the tools listed in this article.
Also, you can check out ourbest PDF editors listif you have needs that surpass the identifying of the font used. Andif you ever get the HoeflerText font wasn’t found Chrome messageprompting you to download a file, don’t do it since it’s a scam.
Tashreef Shareef
Tashreef Shareef is a software developer turned tech writer. He discovered his interest in technology after reading a tech magazine accidentally. Now he writes about everything tech from Windows to iOS and streaming services to IoT at WindowsReport.
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