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Ink, Pixels and Algorithms

Name: Ink, Pixels and Algorithms
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Author: Rodrigo Farías Veloso

From the magnifying glass to neural networks

Handwriting analysis in the age of artificial intelligence

The story of how the study of handwriting moved from the magnifying glass and the trained eye to computer vision and artificial intelligence. Told by someone who lived it, with real handwriting samples, honest data and a question nobody has fully answered yet.

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Cover of Ink, Pixels and Algorithms, by Rodrigo Farías Veloso

What you will find

Three eras of the same protagonist: handwriting

1.0 · THE MAGNIFYING GLASS

The eye that reads

Michon, Crépieux-Jamin, Klages and Pulver: how graphology was born and why the human eye, however well trained, has a limit.

2.0 · THE SPREADSHEET

Counting instead of estimating

From an Excel sheet to millions of pixels: the day we first measured what we had only sensed, and the birth of percentiles.

3.0 · THE ALGORITHM

What can be measured today

More than two hundred indicators, stroke pressure, detecting AI-made handwriting and what the data say, including what did not work.

A game before we start

What percentage of this page do you think is covered in ink?

I asked this in an open class with about a hundred graphologists signed up. Answers ranged from 6 to 70 %, and no two were the same. The real answer, and what it means, is in the book's introduction.

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The sample includes the full introduction and chapter 1. You can also download it as a PDF.

Contents

Introduction · What amateurs do with NASA's data
Part one · 1.0 · The magnifying glass
1The magnifying glass and the abbot
2The problem with the eye
Part two · 2.0 · The spreadsheet
3An Excel spreadsheet
4The black pixels
5Those who came before
6Inksight, 2017
Part three · 3.0 · The algorithm
7An X-ray of handwriting
8The norm that grew old
9The pulse of the hand
10The AI that writes by hand (and what it cannot do)
11What the data say, honestly
12Into a dark forest: what failed and the scale that came back
13The augmented graphologist: reports with AI
14Beyond the page: movement, ethics and what comes next

About 37,000 words and 46 figures with real, anonymized handwriting samples, like a botany book.

The author

Rodrigo Farías Veloso

Psychologist and graphologist. He has taught graphology since 2002, and more than nine thousand students have taken his courses. He directs the Instituto de Ciencias del Grafismo Grafos (Chile) and created GrafoMetrics, a computer-vision platform for handwriting analysis incubated at Start-Up Chile.

A promise of method

This book will not tell you that a sign in a letter reveals who you are. It will show you what can be measured, what we found with real data and what we still do not know. Because a result that only shows its hits is not science: it is advertising.

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