Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain text

Re:Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain... by dan-compton on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:59PM (#14607911)

Great! The easy problem is solved. Now let's do the reverse so that I can hand-draw ditaa diagrams.

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Re:Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain... by r00fus on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:30PM (#14608110)

That's exactly what I was going to say - the "hand drawn" diagram on the right is better looking, but the left hand is far more accessible and arguably have more utility.

That said, this is a really cool demo.

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Re:Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain... by ocrcustomserver on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:12PM (#14608796)

MyScript offers an API that does this. You need to feed it all the motions/sequence of points that make up the shape (known as "online OCR"), it won't work with a static document.

Demo: https://webdemo.myscript.com/views/shape.html

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Re:Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain... by sankha93 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:39PM (#14609750)

There are tools available to draw ASCII diagrams easily, like asciiflow.com or asciidraw.com. Their output can be directly pasted into ShakyDraw.

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Re:Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain... by huangc10 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:04PM (#14608362)

I was just thinking that. It should go both ways :D

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