Matt Zucker

Following the handwritten comments brought me there, which I found to be HN-worthy: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html Also, as a sign of our times, it hyperlinks to what might have been a Microsoft tech page/knowledge base in the past, now completely replaced by poor taste LLM advertising slop. Good work, Microsoft.

This is fantastic, I would only suggest one more thing, yesterday there was article on first page about vectorization, so further compression and cleaning could be done if text would convert to vectors, links is: https://mzucker.github.io/2018/05/14/maptrace.html

Looks great. I'm not the target audience, but feature 5 caught my attention >We will soon be releasing an open source library for users to generate HTML from Latex Flavored Markdown For some reason, the app reminded me about enhancing scanned copy of hand-written notes and I managed to search it online [1] I couldn't remember where I had saved it in my bookmarks, after finding it online, I found the HN entry as well [2] [1] https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16567275

I know the one you mean, this classic one was linked from it: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html

http://kellysutton.com Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html A long time favorite writer: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/

I ended up using this guy's tool[1] for dewarping, which worked pretty well. The tool was more a prototype than anything, but it was enough to finish my project. [1] https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/15/page-dewarping.html

Also see this one: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html which generated the logo for the IOCCC!

> Are there tools that can detect the spine in the middle, de-skew the image, adjust discolouration, detect text, and OCR? https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper provides a partial solution. https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html for some more ideas

Yep, I'm still waiting to use ceres for something - I didn't end up using it on my image approximation project https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/01/gabor-2.html because it doesn't work well with inequality constraints.

You could also reformat the URL to see their profile. https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html becomes https://github.com/mzucker GitHub Pages uses their profile name as the github.io sub-domain.

This is fascinating, there is quite a bit of overlap with a font that I started designing recently: http://alanbernstein.net/images/line-font-lowercase I do small projects on CNC machines, and I got annoyed at having to trace both sides of a character, when using the outline of a standard font. In response, I created the single-stroke characters shown above, but only enough of them to draw basic labels. Part of my original inspiration was this blog post: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html It would be interesting to do a closer comparison of these two fonts, it looks like some of our letters are identical. I definitely prefer some of Leon's characters, especially the 's'. It should be easy enough for me to implement mine in javascript, because I focused on simplicity of the glyph definitions. For example, lowercase 'e' is defined like this: 'e': [Line([-0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5]), Arc([0, 0.5], 0.5, 0, 7/4)], I hope I can find the time to experiment with this.