It has issues with capital letters. One at the beginning of a word works correctly. Mor than one and it falls apart, i.e. III
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#12I had just been primed with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525750
and arrived expecting artistic calligraphy...
That's probably a lot to ask.
Has anybody got tips about interesting datasets in that space?
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#13would be cool if there was an API
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#14Looks lovely. Are you planning to add diacritics or Latin ext characters, (ä, ł, õ)? I'm curious how an animation with them would look as normally I'd apply them either after each word or after a bigger chunk of a word.
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#16I've had a project idea similar to this in the backlog for years: personalized signature generator that can be used to deal with dinosaurs that still want printed, scanned and signed documents.
Basically I want to take a pdf, turn it into fake scan image (add noise, some inkjet smear lines, random skew etc procedurally), then generate signature image to paste over that. Zero dead trees and screaming at printers involved.
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#17As another user pointed out, it can't correctly write accented vowels. Curiously, it writes them quite differently if I add spaces between them, like it was attempting to translate the appearance of characters rather than picking them from a ascii table.
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#18Would be awesome if you can download it as OTF/TTF.
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#19If anyone's interested, I think this is the github url of this project (had to dig a bit since it's not mentioned in the page): https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
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#20This is perfect for those ransom letters I send out. I no longer need to search around for newspapers and am going to save a fortune on sticky tape!