Handwriting Scan Tool

Scan a page of handwriting and extract the letters as individual images. I use this tool when creating fonts based on handwriting.

Installation

cargo install handwriting-scan-tool --locked

Prerequisites

This app needs a scanned image of a page of handwriting to work. A template is included in this app's repository. The file is named handwriting-scan-grid.png. Then, download and print the template.

Next, fill in the boxes with the letterforms or symbols, one per cell. You don't need to fill in every box; Feel free to leave some empty.

Scan the sheet of paper, preferably at 300 DPI. Then, pass the scan image's file path as an argument to this command. It's important that the scanned image is straight, otherwise some characters may be cropped poorly.

Usage

Once the images are scanned, it's time to extract the letters.

handwriting-scan-tool scan -i ./example-handwriting-scan.jpeg -o ./scans"

The command above will extract the letters from the scanned image and save them to the ./scans directory. Once all the letters are extracted, I drag-and-drop them one-by-one into Glyphs and start tracing.

Happy fonting! － Zelda