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Show HN: Unscribbler – Simple Handwriting Reader

17 pointsby samuelzxuabout 2 years ago
This is a handwriting-to-text converter! Just follow the instructions on the page and you&#x27;re good to go :)<p>Background: I&#x27;ve been tutoring on the side for a while and it&#x27;s apparent that the whole process can be smoothed out, with the end goal being an AI tutor buddy with a stylus interface. This is a little step in that direction.<p>As for implementation details, I forked excalidraw (at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;excalidraw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;excalidraw</a>), got a gcp free tier instance running, and scraped together a Google K8s Engine cluster serving with torchserve. Luckily there&#x27;s a great deal on the public preview of c3 cpus at the moment. For the model, I&#x27;m using trocr-base-handwritten ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;trocr-base-handwritten" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;trocr-base-handwritten</a> ).<p>Let me know if anyone has any ideas, suggestions, and&#x2F;or tips!

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samuelzxuabout 2 years ago
This is a handwriting-to-text converter! Just follow the instructions on the page and you&#x27;re good to go :)<p>Background: I&#x27;ve been tutoring on the side for a while and it&#x27;s apparent that the whole process can be smoothed out, with the end goal being an AI tutor buddy with a stylus interface. This is a little step in that direction.<p>As for implementation details, I forked excalidraw (at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;excalidraw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;excalidraw</a>), got a gcp free tier instance running, and scraped together a Google K8s Engine cluster serving with torchserve. Luckily there&#x27;s a great deal on the public preview of c3 cpus at the moment. For the model, I&#x27;m using trocr-base-handwritten ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;trocr-base-handwritten" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;trocr-base-handwritten</a> ).<p>Let me know if anyone has any ideas, suggestions, and&#x2F;or tips!
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x86hacker1010about 2 years ago
Neat project! Cool to see ideas merge like this. Obviously it’s really slow on my phone, but the idea is cool. Btw the conversion isn’t great. I wrote hello and its response Was way off
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