char-img-gen

Generate images from font files.

The images that are generated are useful in machine learning training for image applications.

These categories of characters are used:

1. simplified Chinese (selected)
2. Hànyǔ Pīnyīn vowels with tone marks - diacritics
3. traditional Chinese including Zhuyin (selected)
4. Chinese characters used in Cantonese only (selected)
5. Japanese Kanji (selected)
6. Japnese 平仮名-hiragana & 片仮名-katakana
7. Korean syllables (selected)
8. ascii, Windows-1252, Russian, Greek characters
9. Math symbols (selected)

See README.md in char_lists/ for character selection rationales.

Directory structure

1. char_lists contains lists of characters, each file contains one category of characters.
2. fonts will contain font files
3. scripts has the main program