[HN Gopher] Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
Author : dwynings
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-07-17 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (shapecatcher.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (shapecatcher.com)
| tbabej wrote:
| This reminds me of the now legendary Detexify tool, which
| performs handwritten symbol recognition for LaTeX [1].
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| [1] https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
| sidpatil wrote:
| Shapecatcher's front page mentions Detexify as well.
| randomstring wrote:
| Of course I had to test this by drawing an Interrobang: !?
|
| It got it right. My first drawing didn't have interrobang at the
| top of the suggestion list, because I didn't have the top closed.
| So there is some bias from the font it was trained on.
| tpaschalis wrote:
| +1. I couldn't get it to understand the partial derivative
| symbol [?], unless it was drawn in a very specific way.
|
| But really cool idea, name and execution!
| yreg wrote:
| I just tried to quickly sketch something and got this: hi
| Causality1 wrote:
| It would be nice if the suggestions included the keyboard
| shortcut for inserting that character.
| arc-in-space wrote:
| Yeah, not bad https://i.imgur.com/hAi7ren.png
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| I'm surprised by all the search failures people reported in past
| threads, just about everything I tried worked decently well
| samatman wrote:
| Because I have the emotional constitution of a ten-year-old boy,
| I immediately tried to draw in it, and it didn't find it even
| after I looked it up and tried to reproduce it as exactly as
| possible.
|
| Very cool idea anyway, and would probably work for less juvenile
| use cases.
| tasogare wrote:
| Doesn't work very well if at all. I tried two times a very simple
| Chinese character (Mu ) and it was never in the result list.
| Edit: didn't work with a very simple cuneiform character either.
| slmjkdbtl wrote:
| It doesn't recognize any Chinese character for me, maybe not
| trained with a font containing those characters?
| mjlee wrote:
| On the page right now:
|
| > Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the
| database. Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently
| not supported.
| tinus_hn wrote:
| It does recognize Hiragana
| dang wrote:
| Some past threads:
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| _Shape Catcher: Find Unicode characters by drawing them_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14284750 - May 2017 (28
| comments)
|
| _Draw a shape to get a matching unicode-symbol_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829191 - June 2016 (3
| comments)
|
| _Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403103 - Oct 2014 (38
| comments)
|
| _Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150107 - Feb 2013 (107
| comments)
|
| _Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222964 - Nov 2011 (63
| comments)
|
| _Unicode Character Recognition_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3208967 - Nov 2011 (11
| comments)
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