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Shapecatcher

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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.

Example (Greek letter pi)

License model

  • Free • Proprietary

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
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4.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Features

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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Support for Unicode
  4.  Character database
  5.  Sketch
  6.  Typography
  7.  Handwriting recognition
  8.  Sketching

 Tags

  • unicode-characters
  • typeface
  • Search Engine
  • recognition
  • character-recognition

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Shapecatcher information

  • Developed by

    DE flagBenjamin Milde

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7

  • Alternatives

    16 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Shapecatcher, and it has gotten 14 likes

Shapecatcher was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Dec 1, 2011 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Aug 6, 2013
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This site is very interesting, fun, and informational. You can learn much from the shapes you draw

ArloJamesBarnes
Feb 8, 2016

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.

myf
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May 15, 2024
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This app is a gem. Using it frequently and never had let me down.

bb010g
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Oct 30, 2021
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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).

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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