Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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HN comment orderCouldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm
Similar visual search for LaTeX characters: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Seems to be matching against one particular typeface, and is very sensitive to how similar what you write is to that typeface. The first thing I tried was a lowercase "a," which, in my handwriting, is a one-story "a," and it had no idea what it was. Likewise it guessed poorly at my lowercase "f" because the top of my "f" curves back down, and its doesn't, etc. Seems like it would benefit from a dataset with more variations on…
Similar tool for mathematical symbols: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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