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:

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:

More Info

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