Almost what I want. Is the generated written unique? I would love the chance of collision akin to UUIDv4. So I can track similar but unique signature on digital documents.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#102I created this cursive handwriting OTF font that you can test in a browser (or any other program):
https://certik.github.io/slabikar-otf/
It correctly connects letters and it can do Czech and Slovak accents. It is based on a Metafont source (to be used in TeX) from Petr Olšák, I wrote Python code that reproduces Metafont's Bezier curves algorithm, generates curves as SVG, then calls Inkscape to convert the curve to its boundary, imports back into Python from SVG and then it generates OTF curves and the final font.
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#103My 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"
Such a good catch!
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#104Combine 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.
Most likely mass printed for targeted mailing with a handwriting style font. I remember getting something similar in the mail written in what appeared to be blue ink from a ballpoint pen. Only to find out my wife got an identical piece of ad mail , just with her name at the top.
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#105Beautiful! Now if one can make this generate random handwriting styles, and save these styles for future use I'm set!
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#107 A piece of code that can write cursively better than I ever could and l am from a generation where they forced us to learn cursive writing.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#108I created this cursive handwriting OTF font that you can test in a browser (or any other program): https://certik.github.io/slabikar-otf/ It correctly connects letters and it can do Czech and Slovak accents. It is based on a Metafont source (to be used in TeX) from Petr Olšák, I wrote Python code that reproduces Metafont's Bezier curves algorithm, generates curves as SVG, then calls Inkscape to convert the curve to i…
Interesting: this cursive feels a lot closer than OP to the cursive i was taught at my Italian Public School: example here http://www.leomajor.pn.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/al...
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#109I created this cursive handwriting OTF font that you can test in a browser (or any other program): https://certik.github.io/slabikar-otf/ It correctly connects letters and it can do Czech and Slovak accents. It is based on a Metafont source (to be used in TeX) from Petr Olšák, I wrote Python code that reproduces Metafont's Bezier curves algorithm, generates curves as SVG, then calls Inkscape to convert the curve to i…
Interesting: this cursive feels a lot closer than OP to the cursive i was taught at my Italian Public School: example here http://www.leomajor.pn.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/al...
Indeed! The above cursive is a Czechoslovakian style from 1990s (I think it hasn't changed much since then), and most European countries have quite similar cursive. In the United States the cursive is actually similar also, but a few letters are different, notably: z, r, t and most uppercase letters. My kids learn it at public schools here in the U.S., but it is secondary after print style and assignments are not accepted in cursive... (I am sure it varies from school to school though.)
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#110Alex Graves (now at DeepMind) put a similar demo on his University of Toronto page a long time back: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
Yeah. Alex is so under-appreciated in the early-modern history of AI. This definitely works better than that did though.