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Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by _ZeD_ »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #18
galkk wrote: post #4

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This is insane busywork that I hated in college (xUSSR, 20+ years ago). I would scrutinize the example, though. I don't know how "clean" the documents are expected to be, but the picture is too uniform and too clean - no pen marks, etc.

That is pretty much the US experience also, most of grade and high school was spent copying information from projector slides onto paper. Guess it is an easy way to fill time, read everything off sentence by sentence, wait for everyone to stop writing, cover the sentences not being read so people who fall behind can’t catch up, and speed writers can’t get ahead. I’m very envious of my son, in his classes they distrib…

Writing things down is a known method of studying. I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by chrisco255 »

aldanor wrote: post #13
MikeTheGreat wrote: post #10

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This is really neat! I love how it looks, and the selection of styles. A couple of times, using Style #2, it generated a bunch of loops at the end: Text: "The quick brown fox, etc" Image: https://pasteboard.co/Jn0O17a.png Still - nifty, and fun to play with. Makes me want to find an application / excuse to use it :)

Here's a "Hello World" with a whole ton of loops as well :) https://imgur.com/fhG2Fwq

That's a totally acceptable "helloooooooo world"!

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by glerk »

TheNewAndy wrote: post #28
sbarre wrote: post #22

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This is super cool! A random FYI: the demo seems to consistently fail on the letter x when using style #9 and typing out: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog I tried a few different spots on the legibility slider with similar results.. It draws the first "top left to bottom right" line, but then instead of a "top right to bottom left" it draws another "top left to bottom right" next to it..

Try "fox" in style 2 with maximum legibility. It goes loop-the-loop several times.

Seeing this had a strong uncanny valley like effect on me. Like my brain can't help but imagine a sentient agent writing the text and suddenly becoming psychotic.

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by throwaway13337 »

I've noticed that I get junk mail now that appears hand written. They go so far as to depress the paper as if with pen in a convincing way. They seem indistinguishable except that they are marketing.

I'm left wondering if there is some new innovation here combined with popularity in some marketing newsletter.

I went looking for the device that could do this and have come up empty-handed. Does anyone know what could create such?

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by navanchauhan »

jsjohnst wrote: post #23
navanchauhan wrote: post #7

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It’s giving blank output on iOS or is it because the model takes time to load? Also, is there any chance we can fine tune the model for each user by taking their handwriting in a predetermined template file?

Works for me on iOS. Did you click the “write” button in the bottom right corner? It seems you have to tap it after any change in text or settings for it to update.

Yup, I did use the write button. It works on my laptop though.

I checked the console and it was indeed throwing an error

"Error: Backend name 'webgl' not found in registry"

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by maneesh »

sjv wrote: post #5

Non-statistical methods of imitating handwriting are always fairly easy to identify as synthetic due to the uniformity of strokes and unnatural kerning (among other things). Even methods which incorporate random variations don't hide these artifacts sufficiently well. In my opinion, the only way to generate synthetic handwriting which is convincingly real is to use statistical methods (i.e. machine learning) to model…

Wow! How did you do this? Any tutorials or methods that would be helpful to learn how to produce something like that?

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by galkk »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #31
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #18

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That is pretty much the US experience also, most of grade and high school was spent copying information from projector slides onto paper. Guess it is an easy way to fill time, read everything off sentence by sentence, wait for everyone to stop writing, cover the sentences not being read so people who fall behind can’t catch up, and speed writers can’t get ahead. I’m very envious of my son, in his classes they distrib…

Writing things down is a known method of studying. I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study

In our case it created entire "industry" of rewriting lecture notes by hand (some lecturers required it)

Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

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Post by xmprt »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #31
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #18

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That is pretty much the US experience also, most of grade and high school was spent copying information from projector slides onto paper. Guess it is an easy way to fill time, read everything off sentence by sentence, wait for everyone to stop writing, cover the sentences not being read so people who fall behind can’t catch up, and speed writers can’t get ahead. I’m very envious of my son, in his classes they distrib…

Writing things down is a known method of studying. I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study

Is it though? I've heard very often that lecturing in this fashion is the most inefficient way of transmitting information from a slide onto a notebook without being understood by anyone writing it. If you're processing what you're seeing and summarizing then maybe that works but I think what worked best for me was always asking questions about the material.
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