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Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

40 points by alias-rahil 6y ago

Do the typing, leave writing to handwritten.js! https://www.npmjs.com/package/handwritten.js https://www.npmjs.com/package/handwritten.js https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js Example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js/master/screenshots/lorem-ipsum.jpeg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...

ullash 6y ago
can it be expanded to include multiple languages and fonts ?
dang 6y ago
You'd be better off posting this as a Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and the tips at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638. Post your main link (https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js), then add a first comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction. Good luck!
- rahil-kabani 6y ago
  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I am new to HN and I didn't knew about the tag.
scott31 6y ago
This tool takes a file that can be consumed both by machines and humans and converts it to something that is impossible to consume by machines and hard to consume by humans, also inflating the document size. What are you trying to achieve with this?
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  Such an engineer thing to say. ;)
  - avmich 6y ago
    Are you meaning it in a negative way?
    - nickthemagicman 6y ago
      Not at all! It's just funny how different brains work. He has a very valid point from an engineering perspective.
- asfasfasf12 6y ago
  For art, games etc?
  - scott31 6y ago
    That makes sense, you could make a puzzle game with this
- arkanciscan 6y ago
  I'd imagine a OCR could probably manage to consume it, but you could also mark it up with fallback text for screen readers. Everything inflates document size, and that's okay, it's what documents are for!
- usui 6y ago
  This has uses for a university student. Last week I had the option to have 6 pages of cheat sheets during the final exam with the stipulation that all notes were handwritten. I find this rule to be really annoying because if I have the option of my own notes during the exam, it should not matter whether it is handwritten or not. Anyway, to the creator of this tool: Thank you. I really wish I had known about this before my exam yesterday. This could have saved me hours of time, had I known about it. I will also be bookmarking this for the future, for when the instructors enforce such a rule again.
nickthemagicman 6y ago
This is cool. Did you introduce randomness somehow? It looks like the 'it' in the first two sentences are different. But it could just be my phone.
- kfichter 6y ago
  There appear to be different variations on the letters (src/dataset), one of which is randomly selected.
alias-rahil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205416
chews 6y ago
4 posts this week.... we get it.

40 points by alias-rahil 6y ago

ullash 6y ago

can it be expanded to include multiple languages and fonts ?

dang 6y ago

You'd be better off posting this as a Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and the tips at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638. Post your main link (https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js), then add a first comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction. Good luck!

rahil-kabani 6y ago
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I am new to HN and I didn't knew about the tag.

scott31 6y ago

This tool takes a file that can be consumed both by machines and humans and converts it to something that is impossible to consume by machines and hard to consume by humans, also inflating the document size. What are you trying to achieve with this?

nickthemagicman 6y ago
Such an engineer thing to say. ;)
- avmich 6y ago
  Are you meaning it in a negative way?
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    Not at all! It's just funny how different brains work. He has a very valid point from an engineering perspective.
asfasfasf12 6y ago
For art, games etc?
- scott31 6y ago
  That makes sense, you could make a puzzle game with this
arkanciscan 6y ago
I'd imagine a OCR could probably manage to consume it, but you could also mark it up with fallback text for screen readers. Everything inflates document size, and that's okay, it's what documents are for!
usui 6y ago
This has uses for a university student. Last week I had the option to have 6 pages of cheat sheets during the final exam with the stipulation that all notes were handwritten. I find this rule to be really annoying because if I have the option of my own notes during the exam, it should not matter whether it is handwritten or not. Anyway, to the creator of this tool: Thank you. I really wish I had known about this before my exam yesterday. This could have saved me hours of time, had I known about it. I will also be bookmarking this for the future, for when the instructors enforce such a rule again.

nickthemagicman 6y ago

This is cool. Did you introduce randomness somehow? It looks like the 'it' in the first two sentences are different. But it could just be my phone.

kfichter 6y ago
There appear to be different variations on the letters (src/dataset), one of which is randomly selected.

alias-rahil 6y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205416

chews 6y ago

4 posts this week.... we get it.