rvlander / htools

HTools, tools for studying handwriting.

HTools

HTools, tools for studying handwriting.

PRESENTATION

This suite aims at providing several tools to record, edit, model and do more things on handwritten traces. By now, it is composed of 4 piece of software. Both 4 of them are compatible with Windows & Linux and are based on Java:

1. ExpDO is a handwriting trace recorder, allowing to record traces both with mouse and using a Wacom tablet. Recordings are organized by an experimentation file to ease the process of making an experiments.
2. HandwritingEditor allow to modify a trace interactively working on the signal or it derivatives. Several tools are provided such as resize, move, smooth and hand-free edition of the signals.
3. HollerSynth is a tiny program based on the Hollerbach's 1986 paper in which handwriting is modeled as the result of two oscillators with piece-wise constant parameters changing at vertical zero velocity moments of handwriting. This programallows to edit interactively these parameters and displays the resulting synthesized trace.
4. HollerMap is a piece of software allowing to apply several algorithm to traces and display the result and export them in a PDF file. The main algorithm is the one explained in André and al. [submitted].

REQUIREMENTS

HTools run on both Linux and Windows.

Htools require Java>1.6 to run. HandwritingEditor needs a valid installation of Matlab.

INSTALLATION

HTools can be built using Apache ant or graphically using Netbeans.

Using Apache ant : cd to the base root of the project and type :

$ ant -f HTools/ jar

Using Netbeans : Open the HTools project in Netbeans and build it.

RUNNING

You have 2 way of running the tools :

1. Use Netbeans' run (F5) command on each project (one project = one tool).
2. In a terminal, cd in HTools_build and run :

$ java -Djava.library.path=. -jar .jar

AUTHOR

Gaëtan André [email protected]