Computer handwriting

Question

Are there any practical libraries for creating simulated handwriting from a line of text?

This does not mean using a font like handwriting. Rather, I mean handwriting, where each letter is displayed a little differently and is connected as in the normal rhythm of human handwriting.

Answer 1

I have had some success using RNNLIB ( original , Github Plug ) which uses AI neural networks.

There is a demo link to the Github readme, as well as at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html

Example:

Please note that no demo has particularly good support for numbers (mostly unreadable), and uppercase letters do not cover as well as their lower counterparts. Sometimes the generated image may be missing letters or just go away.

Since this is based on a neural network, it is likely that some of these problems are the result of or can be improved by training the data.

Answer 2

You can take a look at Muse-CGH , an open source tool for stylish hand-made manuscripts.

Muse can synthesize stylish English handwriting from simple texts. Its algorithm carefully combines the strokes of adjacent characters to create italicized words and uses random perturbations to ensure that each character is unique in the rendering results. In addition, it can also generate handwriting animations!