Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
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Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#2Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part!
example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#3You might consider turning this into an OpenType font including all the random alternates: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/26833/hand...
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#4Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part! example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...
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.
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#5Non-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 all variation which is present in real handwriting. I've implemented a neural network in javascript which does exactly this - https://seanvasquez.com/handwriting-generation/. You can play around with it and find a few weaknesses, but in general I find that it can produce handwriting which is indistinguishable from real handwriting.
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#6Just tried it, font looks great on paper. I don’t have too many uses for this, but I bet it’ll be pretty handy for people who are still addicted to reading notes from printed sheets. Great job.
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#7Non-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…
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?
Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#8Non-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…
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Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#9Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part! example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...
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Re: Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
#10Non-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…
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 :)