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Re:Hyperlinks in Handwriting by OneLessThing on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:48PM (#33063282)
I experimented with this approach on my blog[1]. I had an image of the handwritten blog post and used a feature in Inkscape to get SVG and make clickable text. I decided to place a little plain text in there to help Google search crawlers know what content is on the page. I really would prefer handwriting more.

My problems boil down to just that flow of the tools sucked. I didn't want to have to attach multiple pages together. Inkscape was honestly a bit clunky to work with and I didn't have any personal tools to generate the full html from the svg.

I might just be inspired to try again though.

[1] https://blog.alew.is/insertionsort.html

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Re:Hyperlinks in Handwriting by nonoesp on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:08AM (#33066967)
Nice!

A solution could be to OCR the site and overlay the actual recognized text on the site as HTML items that can be hidden but useful for Google index the contents.

I can see the pain and friction that doing that manually would entail though.

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