I ’m a author , so I ’ll always have a place in my heart for the handwritten page ( partially because I consider in wild-eyed idea about written material , but also because there is no way I ’m using my phone to typecast out anything beyond a few words ) .
If there ’s a means to compound script and computer typewriting , I ’d be all for it , but sealed avenues have n’t been deserving it . I tried write with a stylus on a pill , but that was n’t antiphonal and my writing looked even worse than usual . I ’ve checked out a few of thoseconvert handwriting into fontsprograms , but the scan does n’t always go from page to screen accurately , often include break in the lines where the ink is n’t pick up .
The newest addition that I ’ll have to try someday comes from researchers at University College London , who ’ve created an algorithm that break down handwritten text edition and is able to simulate that way with any combination of words .
The machine is built around glyph , or a specific instance of a character reference , and can recognize a person ’s specific character choices , grain , the inter - character ligatures ( the joining - up between letter ) , and vertical and spacing . Since everyone ’s handwriting has slim differences within itself , it take the average .
Tom Haines , the Pb author on the project , said that “ My Text in Your script ” has the potential to help people who have trouble control a penitentiary , or if banks or other insane asylum require to charge out sensitive document and desire to make them await like handwritten letter of the alphabet .
“ Stroke victims , for example , may be capable to contrive letters without the business organisation of illegibility , or someone institutionalize blossom as a natural endowment could let in a handwritten preeminence without even going into the florist , ” Haines said ina statement . “ It could also be used in comical book where a piece of handwritten schoolbook can be translated into different languages without losing the writer ’s original style . ”
As someone who sign up contract online , I can also see the potential benefit of it to better register signatures .
Of course , it can also be used to write out words in a renowned writer ’s calligraphy , which I ’m sure will make looking up inverted comma on the net even more confusing and hard to check . However , study author Dr Gabriel Brostow observe that the organization can actually help in discover forgeries , since the writing can be canvass under a microscope .
“ We can use our software system to characterise handwriting to measure the odds that something was forged , ” he order . “ For deterrent example , we could forecast what ratio of people start their ‘ o ’s ’ at the bottom versus the top and this kind of elaborate analysis could reduce the forensics service ’s reliance on heuristics . ”
investigator had participants write out certain conversant , English - language passages from the top 100 books in the Project Gutenberg database . According to the code , which was partially post over atGithub , this was done to get the most accurate sample because familiar passage are easy to write and the participants would n’t pause .
mass were also asked to severalise between handwritten envelopes and I created by the software package . Researchers said that people were fooled around 40 pct of the time .
Not indisputable if any software can replicate my sloppy - ass hand , although I ’m sure that ’s what everyone says . Here ’s hoping my cursive can reveal the algorithm ( it probably wo n’t ) .
[ BBC ]
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