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Welcome

Unlock the power of handwriting analysis with handwriter. This tool is designed to assist forensic examiners by analyzing handwritten documents. Whether you are a forensic document examiner, legal professional, academic, or simply curious about how statistics are applied to handwriting, handwriter provides an automated way to evaluate handwriting samples.

Quick Start

View a Demo

View a demo of handwriter on handwritten documents from the CSAFE Handwriting Database. Go to demo.

Use Your Own Handwriting Samples

Installation

Handwriter requires R, RStudio IDE, and JAGS.

• Install R and RStudio from POSIT
• Install JAGS from SourceForge

Install the handwriterApp R package. Open RStudio and navigate to the console window and type

options(timeout = 100000)
install.packages("handwriterApp")
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("CSAFE-ISU/handwriterRF")

Launch the App

Open RStudio, navigate to the console window, and type:

library(handwriterRF)
library(handwriterApp)
handwriterApp()

In the pop-up window, click Open in Browser. If you use the app in the pop-up window instead of in a browser, some links will not work.

Follow the instructions to analyze handwriting samples.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.