Generating labeled images for each glyph in a bitmap font file

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Is there an easy way to generate a labeled bitmap image for each glyph contained in a given bitmap font file?

I'm trying to convert a collection of Japanese .bdf fonts into a format usable in MATLAB and C++, where each glyph is used as the OCR classification key for the character it represents.

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