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ullash
can it be expanded to include multiple languages and fonts ?
dang
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!

rahil-kabani
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I am new to HN and I didn't knew about the tag.
scott31
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
Such an engineer thing to say. ;)
avmich
Are you meaning it in a negative way?
nickthemagicman
Not at all! It's just funny how different brains work. He has a very valid point from an engineering perspective.
asfasfasf12
For art, games etc?
scott31
That makes sense, you could make a puzzle game with this
arkanciscan
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
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
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
There appear to be different variations on the letters (src/dataset), one of which is randomly selected.
chews
4 posts this week.... we get it.