Convert text into your handwriting

Do you ever get irritated by pointless college/school assignments? Hell yeah!!! Let's imagine you have a school writing assignment in a word or text file that you must complete in your own handwriting. Don't worry, I've got you covered. This python script will transform your digital text (writeups or assignment) into handwriting.

“Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.”

-Unknown

Input

Deep learning is an artificial intelligence function that imitates the workings of the human brain in processing data and creating patterns for use in decision making. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence (AI) that has networks capable of learning unsupervised from data that is unstructured or unlabeled. Also known as deep neural learning or deep neural network.

Output

Handwritten character data-

You will have to manually create a your own handwriting dataset. Write alphabets, numbers, punctuation on a paper. Then crop all those characters and save with their respective Ascii number

Simple logic

The logic behind the script is very easy and straightforward.

We're just sequentially pasting the character's cropped images on a blank paper according to our input text

Code

Python's power can be seen through the code below. We can turn the text into our own handwriting with just 25 lines of code and the help of the built-in module PIL (Python imaging library). Let's take a peek at the code now.

#Importing Library

from PIL import Image

#Open the text file which you have to convert into handwriting

txt=open("dummy.txt") # path of your text file

BG=Image.open("myfont/bg.png") #path of page(background)photo (I have used blank page)

sheet_width=BG.width

gap, ht = 0, 0

for i in txt.read().replace("\n",""):

cases = Image.open("myfont/{}.png".format(str(ord(i))))

BG.paste(cases, (gap, ht))

size = cases.width

height=cases.height

#print(size)

gap+=size

if sheet_width < gap or len(i)*115 >(sheet_width-gap):

gap,ht=0,ht+140

print(gap)

print(sheet_width)

BG.show()

As you know we are only using a single library called as PIL. Python Imaging Library is a free and open-source library for the Python programming language that adds support for opening, manipulating, and saving many different image file formats. By using built-in open method we are reading the text file in which our assignment is saved. The entire process is dependent on 2 main parameters, ht and gap. ht is y position and gap is x position of respective character from origin (In our case top left coroner of the page)

Then we are using open method of Image class to read the background image. For this demonstration we are using plain white paper, but you can use any other image of your choice by adding the appropriate path. The .replace("\n","") method is used to remove newlines present in input text.

Now moving towards the looping part, where we'll iterate through each character in our input text and read the corresponding image. Here comes the role ascii code , remember I have asked to you save handwriting character images with their respective ascii code. Ascii code made the image reading process very easy. The function ord(i) outputs the ascii number of input character i . And the rest code is simple is very straightforward to understand we are just updating the values of variable ht and gap. Consider (gap, ht) as a index position of you courser (x,y). Add image width of every input character to a gap variable . Check whether the the line width is exceeding the width of page, if yes then move to next line by adding 140 px in ht variable (Note the unit of width , height is pixel). This may vary in you case depending upon size of handwritten character and background page.

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