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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by petodo »

zokier wrote: post #26
petodo wrote: post #10

That's not really realistic, it can't even do normal cursive handwriting with first capital letter joined, I dunno anyone who writes like any of those 10 styles, maybe they are common in US, but certainly not in this part of Europe. Get back to me when it will knows at least something like this: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5d1b0e1d28c12813e1255... or here especially 1st and 3rd line https://d50-a.sdn.cz/d_…

> That's not really realistic, it can't even do normal cursive handwriting There is no such thing as "normal cursive". Cursive as a general style is primarily defined by joined characters, which this generator definitely does, in contrast to print writing which has separated characters. Even formal cursive writing systems vary wildly in style and construction, and I'd venture a guess that vast majority of people do i…

All styles I tried have first capitalized letter separated (not joined as it should be properly) and written in print writing, that's not really cursive by my standards.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by bmn__ »

zokier wrote: post #26
petodo wrote: post #10

That's not really realistic, it can't even do normal cursive handwriting with first capital letter joined, I dunno anyone who writes like any of those 10 styles, maybe they are common in US, but certainly not in this part of Europe. Get back to me when it will knows at least something like this: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5d1b0e1d28c12813e1255... or here especially 1st and 3rd line https://d50-a.sdn.cz/d_…

> That's not really realistic, it can't even do normal cursive handwriting There is no such thing as "normal cursive". Cursive as a general style is primarily defined by joined characters, which this generator definitely does, in contrast to print writing which has separated characters. Even formal cursive writing systems vary wildly in style and construction, and I'd venture a guess that vast majority of people do i…

> There is no such thing as "normal cursive".

http://enwp.org/Teaching_script

There exist handwriting styles that have been standardised by their national ministry of education or similar, and millions of school children each year learn it. It is true that quite soon the individual's styles diverge from the normal form.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by creata »

credit_guy wrote: post #34
urbandw311er wrote: post #20

This 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!

So now I just need to go ask this startup to see their logs. I'll get your IP address in no time. Maybe I'll need a warrant. But I'm sure these guys will just be very nice and send me their logs on an ongoing basis.

Fortunately, it works without an Internet connection!

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by alt227 »

ocimbote wrote: post #60

My first name contains one of the fewest used letters of the alphabet and in first position nonetheless: Xavier Let me tell you: the training data did not contain that many X to begin with :D The Xs at best look like Ts, at worst like malformed Os. Always funny to find the blind spots of some piece of tech.

This is hilarious, its like its treating an X as a wonky t !

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by lcrz »

linschn wrote: post #25
progbits wrote: post #16

I'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 invol…

Apart from the signature generation, here is another project that does the false-scanning and signature pasting : https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign

These fake-scanner pdf generators always use a huge skew. A tiny (random) bit of skewing makes it seem more genuine, but using the same exact large rotation puts it in an uncanny valley.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by gjm11 »

ocimbote wrote: post #60

My first name contains one of the fewest used letters of the alphabet and in first position nonetheless: Xavier Let me tell you: the training data did not contain that many X to begin with :D The Xs at best look like Ts, at worst like malformed Os. Always funny to find the blind spots of some piece of tech.

Cranking up the "legibility" I see plenty of perfectly respectable "x"s. Are you sure this is "not enough training data" rather than "actually, people writing quickly write pretty bad 'x's"?

[EDITED to add:] Ah, oops, I see. You were talking specifically about _capital_ X. You are right and I was wrong: the model produces disastrous capital Xs even at high legibility settings.

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