Hi, I purchased the script an did the download of sciter sdk. But I have to admit, I do not have a clue, how to use it. Could you give me some direction for that?
Thank you in advance, Stefan
Thank you for your purchase. To compile the project, one would need to install Rust, then type cargo run in a command prompt window in that folder.
If you wish to bypass this step, I’ve uploaded a pre-built executable titled “EXECUTABLE (v1.0.0)”.
This executable maps German characters as described, and has no text-length limit. Text is shrunk to fit.
I am currently working on word-wrap, and hope to complete it within the week.
Regarding a German dataset:
The current model was trained on the English dataset linked here. It is very computationally-intensive; as you can see, even using machine-learning hardware, it took 2 days.
The same source does have a 13th century German dataset, but it’s (presumably) in blackletter, and probably not in the correct format — static images, instead of strokes with velocity data recorded with “eBeam” (a digital whiteboard).
In theory, one could draw text on their computer (preferably using a digital stylus) and convert the strokes to a compatible format for training, but I am not sure how much text would be required. It may be prohibitively time-consuming. Again, there is the issue of computation power necessary to train the model in a reasonable timeframe.
On the bright side, we’re mostly concerned about missing pairs of dots 😁 So I am hopeful I can find a way to figure out where the umlauts are, and add the missing dots on top.
That is great. I am not a programmer and anything like this I have to spend lots of time to understand (if so). Sometimes I have to give up. So your generous help is highly appreciated.
Regards of the dataset, I think, it will not be possible for me, as in the site, for which you sent the link, they talk of several days even on an advanced machine. And lots of contributions of handwritten text.
Perhaps one day any institute will concern to do this tedious (and for me not possible) work.
Well, I am grateful, for what you offer and it is already a lot for me to play with . I am always interested in any forthcoming. Thank you very much again.
Stefan