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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by dspillett »

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.

Common punctuation wasn't particularly common in the training set either: exclamations marks lack dots except style 6 where it is at the top (some Spanish in the training set? Or misclassified "i"s?), and [deity] knows what style 9 is doing with them. Didn't dare try an interrobang :)

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by jvm___ »

intotheabyss wrote: post #80
Version467 wrote: post #54

Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)

One step closer to the movie Her

Seinfeld.

George gets married because of a typo into an AI handwritten letter service he sent to his girlfriend.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by criddell »

Version467 wrote: post #54

Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)

I think all of the car dealers I've dealt with the past decade are doing something like this. I get "handwritten" notes from them a few times a year telling me the market is hot for my 5 year old Subaru and I'd be a fool not to trade it in.

I don't know if it's a machine writing the notes or if that's what salespeople do when they aren't busy.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by dsego »

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…

MacOS Preview app has a handy feature to add a signature via the trackpad or camera and then just paste it into any PDF.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by jade-cat »

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.

i recommend trying the phrase "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!" on style 6, with legibility set to maximum. sometimes it looks roughly right, sometimes it opens with "sphnnneoooeoeoeoeoevorneroerof black quartz"

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by rootusrootus »

criddell wrote: post #94
Version467 wrote: post #54

Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)

I think all of the car dealers I've dealt with the past decade are doing something like this. I get "handwritten" notes from them a few times a year telling me the market is hot for my 5 year old Subaru and I'd be a fool not to trade it in. I don't know if it's a machine writing the notes or if that's what salespeople do when they aren't busy.

I work for a company that writes a lot of the fundamental technology for car dealers. In most cases you probably are getting actual handwritten notes from salespeople. They’ll absolutely put that minimal effort into lead generation.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by notoverthere »

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.

It does the same sort of thing for the @ symbol. They, too, look a bit like a lowercase letter 't'.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by ygra »

legoxx wrote: post #48

very nice, just a small comment, this is NOT handwriting style, it should look like this in my book: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3tT5h...

Well, there are lots of different handwritings. Not everyone writes cursive (especially in the US it seems to be very rare). My own handwriting is something like a hybrid between cursive and print with a few contextual ligatures thrown in.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by folkrav »

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.

Doesn't handle accents either haha. My first name has an "é", it shows up somewhere between a straight up "t" (funny that it's the same letter as your "x") or some garbled mess.
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