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ghrltoday at 10:55 AM4 repliesview on HN

There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.

Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.


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Fnoordtoday at 3:39 PM

There's very good OCR models. Then it becomes a matter of which letter is which. In Latin script there's only 26 possibilities, and then there's numbers and symbols.

1) https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

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coderbantstoday at 2:46 PM

If only my handwriting weren't utter chicken scratch I'd use this, but in my case - nobody needs to see that. :-/

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Y_Ytoday at 12:18 PM

Ah, the Overleaf model.

Am I crazy to think there should be some way to stop this? It's utterly anticompetitive, but ai don't know any country where they bother trying to stop a small company buying/killing its competitors.

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