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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by dwringer »

lemoncookiechip wrote: post #124

Want to see if I could get it to do a cliche doctor's handwriting. It turned out pretty funny. Input: 500mg of Amoxicillin, 3 times a day for 7 days. Lowest Speed, Lowest Legibility, Lowest Stroke Width, Style 6 https://i.imgur.com/lH0bPBs.png

Got the dosage perfect. Pretty close on the xmosmrelin. But the latter half is far too legible still.

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Post by hm64 »

ygra wrote: post #106
llagerlof wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a previous comment, it's an open source project! https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis

Well, the source code is available, but as there is no license you can't really consider it open-source.

A large number of handwriting synthesis demos are derivations of/inspired by Alex Graves's paper "Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks". Alex's code is available under GPL-3.0 here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/rnnl/. One could also port the techniques described in the paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850 using any modern machine learning framework.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by andai »

shaicoleman wrote: post #127
GuB-42 wrote: post #114

For fun: max speed, max legibility, style 2, sentence "My first name is: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla", stroke width doesn't matter. It may take a few tries but at some point, you may get some weird results (about 1/4 time for me). It may happen with other settings, but these work well for me.

Example screenshot: https://snipboard.io/mxF8O0.jpg

I got an even longer one! https://i.imgur.com/SvxL9IE.png

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Post by lovehashbrowns »

dubya wrote: post #112
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.

Try 'XXX'. Definitely too much variation with what should be the same glyph. It doesn't seem to know about ampersands either.

6ix9ine puts the 9 as a G and the x is all sortsa fun variations. Sometimes it’s a lowercase t, sometimes it’s a bunch of loops, and sometimes it’s two disconnected slashes.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Post by Waterluvian »

My very first test was: how similar is each instance of the same character? Because they always just fake handwriting and duplicate it and you can instantly tell it's just a font or whatnot. Not this one. Not only are they unique each time, but they retain the "style." Well done.
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