[HN Gopher] Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want ___________________________________________________________________ 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]. | | [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 | | 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: | | _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) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-17 23:01 UTC)