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wriggler

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About wriggler

Founder of Handwriting OCR (https://www.handwritingocr.com)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44843343

    This wrote a complete Laravel feature for me from start to finish almost perfectly, better than any other approach I have tried (e.g. TaskMaster). Amazing job. I need to take the t…

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    Comment #44842367

    Using this now - works brilliantly! What makes it Laravel specific? Would also love to use this with a React Native app I'm struggling to build.

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    Comment #42748999

    From https://www.handwritingocr.com - seemed to be more accurate, mostly getting the New Mexican and possibly other parts: --- and I don't know whether it can be reset for a date i…

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    Comment #42748795

    I'm the founder of handwritingocr.com - have you checked out our free trial? We have loads of educators using our service for exactly this, and they seem quite happy with it.

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    Comment #42189859

    I understand your concern, and it's a common one. However, we can only give assurances in our privacy policy that your data is used only to perform the OCR, and nothing else. You c…

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    Comment #42164693

    I'd love to hear how Handwriting OCR ( https://www.handwritingocr.com ) compares for your task. It's not free, but its accuracy for for handwritten documents is the best out there …

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    Show HN: Rate my Writing – improve your handwriting with AI

    Hi HN, I've been working on a fun, free tool that uses AI to analyze your handwriting and provide constructive feedback, including tips for improvement. It's a hobby project that I…

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    Comment #40553734

    Hi, There's no way to fine tune at present, but it does pretty well with all but the scrawliest of handwriting out of the box. btw I wrote to the email in your profile, not sure if…

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    Comment #40553707

    Thanks, I'm grateful for this useful feedback.

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    Comment #40553704

    Hey, Thanks for the feedback and great suggestions. It's something I will try to implement in the coming days. p.s. I tried to make my affiliation clear - I wrote "I’m the founder"…

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    Comment #40549149

    True, in cases like OP a one-off purchase will be better. But I also have business customers with regular and ongoing document processing needs for whom a subscription does work. I…

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    Comment #40540937

    Thanks! I’m still experimenting with pricing, and agree that per page pricing makes logical sense. Still, it’s harder for me to build a sustainable business on that model. I will p…

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    Comment #40540402

    Have you tried https://www.handwritingOCR.com ? It is designed to do exactly what you are looking for, and has been used very successfully by many others for that same purpose (I’m…

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    Comment #40413742

    Sounds like a challenge! https://www.handwritingocr.com :)

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    Comment #37870812

    Hah, yes. It's just the remnants of a template. As I said - totally half-baked and not ready for (or expecting) users yet.

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    Comment #37869042

    I left my last job and a toxic boss a few months back and decided the only viable future is to start my own thing again. But this time I was going to do it properly - lean customer…

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    Comment #34993955

    Hey, nice app. Can you add support for non-English transcription/translation, though?

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    Comment #14447853

    Everything is done with real time calls to the eBay API. eBay's catalogue is too large to make it realistic to fetch it as a whole and, anyway, as far as I remember they don't offe…

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    Comment #14439984

    Lumen (from Laravel) with Nginx on Linode. PHP 7.1 has given a huge boost in terms of the performance you can get from a cheap VPS.

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    Comment #14438767

    I block all bots and crawlers except Googlebot and Bingbot (the others bring no users but can hit the servers hard), so I'd treat Alexa etc with a pinch of salt. Nonetheless, the f…

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    Comment #14438743

    In my case it was word of mouth, social sharing, and the good graces of Google. Each individual user is simply worth too little to make a paid marketing strategy viable. With the t…

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    Comment #14438303

    I built and run StoreSlider[1]. It made ~$700,000 in 2016, mainly in affiliate revenue from eBay. Costs are essentially hosting (between two and five $10 Linodes, depending on load…