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Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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This looks cool but I wish it showed examples of different kinds of handwriting being detected. Cursive? European numbers vs American numbers (the 1 especially)? Doctor (or other badly rendered hand writing)? Seems like this technology isn't really all that useful if it doesn't work on various inputs, especially 'unclean' or 'sloppy' inputs.

Thanks for the comment! The algorithm works on a large variety of handwriting (currently only support English). It's a NN that was trained on ~100k different handwriting examples, and it's pretty robust to cursive / sloppy handwriting. Haven't tried European vs American numbers yet but I'll definitely give it a try now that you've piqued my curiosity

Pretty cool project / release! How does it do with bubbly teenage girl script? Example: http://www.annakoren.com/images/love7.gif Best to ya.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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I've been keeping a physical dev diary and have been trying to keep up with transcribing it to digital, but would love any shortcuts to that process as I'm pretty bad about keeping up with it.

My handwriting is kind of messy but I'm eager see how well your algorithms can handle it. It doesn't have to be perfect anyway, as I don't mind going in and cleaning up afterwards. Should still save me some time and some typing.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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This looks cool but I wish it showed examples of different kinds of handwriting being detected. Cursive? European numbers vs American numbers (the 1 especially)? Doctor (or other badly rendered hand writing)? Seems like this technology isn't really all that useful if it doesn't work on various inputs, especially 'unclean' or 'sloppy' inputs.

>European numbers vs American numbers (the 1 especially)?

Honestly I think 9 will be the bigger issue, to my eyes the European version is near identical to lower-case G.

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