Show HN: Draw characters to help computers read human handwriting

singhrac · on Nov 28, 2015

Is this even useful? Handwriting is a well studied problem with good solutions, and we have lots of data (MNIST, etc.)

Can someone explain why we need humans to create new, unreliably labeled datasets?

pnt12 · on Nov 28, 2015

I agree, an 'about' page or similar would be nice.

mkl · on Nov 28, 2015

Who gets the data? You alone? I.e. what is the incentive to use this?

sakopov · on Nov 28, 2015

Doesn't seem to work. Getting javascript errors on Chrome 46.0.2.

Update: works fine in chrome's device emulator. Didn't realize this was only for mobile devices, but it makes sense.

ColinWright · on Nov 28, 2015

    Sorry. We only accept drawings
    made with a touch-screen device

So ... I'm using a touch-screen device. Why am I getting this message?

Amorymeltzer · on Nov 28, 2015

Neat idea! Two questions:

- Do you verify inputs to ensure they are at least reasonably valid and not trolling? - I'm getting a lot of numbers and certain letters, are you specifically trying to get the problem cases solved? If so, good idea - but how does it do right now?

pnt12 · on Nov 28, 2015

Wouldn't complete words be more useful? People probably change the way they write certain letters based on the adjacent letters.