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Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by ItendToDisagree »

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.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by mlaskin »

ItendToDisagree wrote: post #2

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

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by ItendToDisagree »

mlaskin wrote: post #3
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #2

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

Thanks for the reply! The European 1 often looks like an upward facing triangle without a bottom line. Surprisingly frequently it has caused European's in the US to have issues with the IRS/Taxes because the European 1 is often interpreted by Americans as a 7 (because Americans do not use a bar across the center of the 7 or Z). A household size of 7 instead of 1 can be a real back breaker!
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