This is excellent. Can someone knowledgeable weigh in on what it would take to make an API out of something like this so one could say integrate this into a document/image/presentation generator. Or for a simpler usecae - personalized greeting card generator.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#82tried this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
did not work well
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#83Does not seem to be very consistent. When I generate 2 texts with the same "style", it never looks like written by the same writer.
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#84I think a lot about how the written English language has been altered by technology. Latin majuscule letterforms were designed, AFAICT, to be easy to chisel into stone. Miniscule letterforms were later invented because they were faster to write, enabling monks to copy manuscripts more quickly. Printing press manufacturers saved money by getting rid of letters that could be replaced by combining others (the thorn), al…
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#85My 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.
The x's are bad across the board I think. Although on the whole I think this is pretty cool.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#86My 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.
I'm pretty sure you name is Tavier.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#87This is SUPER FUCKING COOL
The UI is beautiful because it gets out of the way
The fact that you have a built in SVG export is chefs kiss
My only suggestion re the export is you should have it save as .svg, on my mac / chrome it just saved as an extension-less file.
Is there any way it could output line paths instead of shapes? I would love to be able to use this with my pen plotter but because of the output it effectively does tiny traces around each letter instead of natural strokes like a person does
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#88It is still far, far from realistic cursive writing(especially old documents). But it's a good starting point if you want synthetic training data for writing your own handwritten text recognition NNs (specially for less common languages). It's based on 10 fonts only. I saw papers that had systems using 5000 different fonts to generate synthetic handwritten training data.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#89This is SUPER FUCKING COOL The UI is beautiful because it gets out of the way The fact that you have a built in SVG export is chefs kiss My only suggestion re the export is you should have it save as .svg, on my mac / chrome it just saved as an extension-less file. Is there any way it could output line paths instead of shapes? I would love to be able to use this with my pen plotter but because of the output it effect…
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#90It's awesome, but it isn't internationalised and does not mention not being. üõöä letters ended up as weird strokes.