Comment by oliwarner
Indeed. Scan a book in public domain, feed into an online font generation service, pay somebody to clean it up.
A few hours later, you have a font you can use how you like. Is it as good? Probably not, but it's much cheaper.
Edit: oh look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46127400
Yes. I did see that other article. No the process we are using is not using AI. We are not using OCR either. We are using computational geometry and forensics methodology. No flatbed scanners. No sheet fed scanners.
This isn't like anything ever done before. It's entirely different and higher quality than any result you can get through AI or OCR.
I do agree that detailed work is required to do it correctly and produced high quality results. I'm not offhandedly saying "just do these simple things and bam perfection."