Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

Re:Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text by mlaskin on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:47AM (#14423964)

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

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Re:Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text by ItendToDisagree on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:51AM (#14424002)

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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Re:Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text by 6stringmerc on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:05AM (#14424115)

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

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Re:Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text by mlaskin on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:05AM (#14424545)

thanks for the question!

It handles that kind of script pretty well, mainly because we had a good amount of training examples from college student handwriting

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