Adapt to Chinese handwritten characters

[csc818]

Scanahand is an excellent software that serves as a great assistant for quickly creating handwritten fonts. However, it seems to be more geared towards Western characters and may not have taken into account Asian scripts, such as Chinese.

Chinese characters are mostly square in shape, with the majority of characters having frames close to rectangles, although there are exceptions with characters that have fewer strokes. The issue encountered when using Scanahand to generate Chinese fonts is that the position of the generated characters does not align with the original writing, making the typesetting look unattractive. It would be helpful to have a specialized template that adds a square box within each writing frame for positioning, which could then be automatically removed after vectorization. I wonder if this is feasible.

[Erwin Denissen]

The vertical position should be how you draw the outlines, but the horizontal position is something that is calculated by Scanahand.

We might consider your suggested adaption if more people want such enhancement.

[csc818]

I update a sample, please refer it . the key point is that how to delete the rectangle in trace process.

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[liu hanxu]

It's a great idea, and I need it.

There is also a problem, in the second step to fit the curve to add files, that is, drag dozens of pictures inside, every other one is blank, adding unsuccessful. Page after page must be added, resulting in a lot of work. Ask the developer to try it out for himself

[Erwin Denissen]

It's a great idea, and I need it.

Scanahand can not cope with those rectangles, so you will need to remove them prior to adding the templates to Scanahand.

It's a great idea, and I need it.

There is also a problem, in the second step to fit the curve to add files, that is, drag dozens of pictures inside, every other one is blank, adding unsuccessful. Page after page must be added, resulting in a lot of work. Ask the developer to try it out for himself

We are not able to reproduce the issue, as we can easily add 100 completed template pages.

What is the image format of your template pages?

[liu hanxu]

jpeg/jpg

[Erwin Denissen]

Can you share some with us, so we can try if it works here?