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Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by dang on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:27PM (#24171079)
You'd be better off posting this as a Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and the tips at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638.

Post your main link (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!

Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by rahil-kabani on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:13AM (#24177967)
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I am new to HN and I didn't knew about the tag.
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by nickthemagicman on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:21PM (#24172056)
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.
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by kfichter on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:41PM (#24173056)
There appear to be different variations on the letters (src/dataset), one of which is randomly selected.
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by alias-rahil on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:16PM (#24205470)
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by chews on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:51PM (#24206061)
4 posts this week.... we get it.
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by ullash on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:38PM (#24170637)
can it be expanded to include multiple languages and fonts ?
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by scott31 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:12PM (#24171974)
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?
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by usui on Sunday August 16, 2020 @08:23AM (#24177204)
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.

Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by nickthemagicman on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:20PM (#24172043)
Such an engineer thing to say. ;)
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by avmich on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:42PM (#24172681)
Are you meaning it in a negative way?
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by nickthemagicman on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:05AM (#24177435)
Not at all! It's just funny how different brains work. He has a very valid point from an engineering perspective.
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by arkanciscan on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:34PM (#24173016)
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!
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by asfasfasf12 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#24172662)
For art, games etc?
Re:Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting by scott31 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:11PM (#24173236)
That makes sense, you could make a puzzle game with this