In my own experience, i have used what the font on www.myfonts.com and the problem with it is that it will only show you the fonts they sell. I have used other font recognition softwares but until now i've had the best results with abby fine reader (you can find it in download.com), it's a OCR software but it also recognizes fonts.

My best advice would be to use Bitstream Font navigator to sort and manage your fonts, it can work with adobe type manager so you can view your type 1 fotns too. You can sort them by style or format, making it easier to find a particular font. You usually get a version of font navigator with coreldraw since version 8.

I hope I've been useful.