handwritten

Plain text to handwriting generator.

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Handwritten

Homework could have been so much easier if only it could be submitted as a typed copy.
Using Alex Graves’ paper on handwriting generation is a step I liked. This script uses his amazing paper (actually the free service he has set up online) to generate handwritten homework for given text.

Requirements

python3.x
pip install requests
pip install pillow

Or you can do pipenv install --python3

Usage

usage: get_hand.py [-h] (-f FILE | -t TEXT) [-s STYLE] [-b BIAS] [-p POSITION]
                   [-c COLOR]

Plain text to handwriting generator.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILE, --file FILE  text file to generate handwriting from (default: None)
  -t TEXT, --text TEXT  text to generate handwriting from (default: None)
  -s STYLE, --style STYLE
                        handwriting style from 0 to 5, where 5 is random style
                        (default: 5)
  -b BIAS, --bias BIAS  handwriting bias from 0.1 to 1 (default: 0.8)
  -p POSITION, --position POSITION
                        start at specific position (default: 0)
  -c COLOR, --color COLOR
                        add custom RGB color values to generated text
                        (default: 0,0,0)

Example

Generating handwritten text page from a file (with no more than 100 characters in each line) with handwriting style 4:

python get_hand.py -f desc.txt -s 4
python make_page.py

Now open pages/1.png:

sample handwriting

Generating handwritten text using a string in blue color & custom bias with handwriting style 2:

python get_hand.py -t "Homework could have been easier" -s 2 -c 0,0,200 -b 0.85

Now open images/0.png:

blue ink

More Info

The paper
The man behind it all. Alex Graves
What I am using