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    Shapecatcher

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    What is Shapecatcher?

    Shapecatcher is a new website, that helps you to find specific Unicode characters, just by sketching their shape. Currently about 10000 of the most important Unicode characters are compared to your sketch and are analysed for similarities. It can find the most similar character shapes for your drawing.

    Under the hood, Shapecatcher uses so called "shape contexts" to find similarities between two shapes. Shape contexts, a robust mathematical way of describing the concept of similarity between shapes, is a feature descriptor first proposed by Serge Belongie and Jitendra Malik.
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    • Top positive comment  over 8 years ago • 1 reply
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    This site is very interesting, fun, and informational. You can learn much from the shapes you draw

    ArloJamesBarnes

    Shapecatcher is excellent for language study, although it should be noted that CJKV characters are not really supported (the author acknowledges this, and has little time for development, although I am sure throwing money his way would help).

    Here is the site announcement thread: https://redd.it/m42kc

    Be sure to also check out Detexify for TeX, which I will add as an alternative soon.

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    • Top positive comment  3 months ago • 0 replies
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    Shapecatcher recognizes quickly and well, presents a comprehensive list of prospective characters that is still easy to find the looked for character in, and loads quickly & works well on mobile (even over a slower cellular data connection).

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    Photos & Graphics • OS & Utilities • Online Services

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    • unicode-characters
    • typeface
    • character-recognition
    • Search Engine
    • recognition
    Example (Greek letter pi)
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    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Shapecatcher, and it has gotten 13 likes

    • Developed by Benjamin Milde
    • Proprietary and Free product.
    • Average rating of 4.5
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    Shapecatcher was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Dec 1, 2011 and this page was last updated Jan 18, 2022.

    Recent user activities on Shapecatcher

    • bb010g added Support for Unicode as a feature to Shapecatcher
      2 months ago
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      2 months ago
    • bb010g reviewed Shapecatcher
      Shapecatcher recognizes quickly and well, presents a comprehensive list of prospective characters that is still easy to find the looked for character in, and loads quickly & works well on mobile (even over a slower cellular data connection).
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      3 months ago