Perfect for cheats of all ages, and esp. students who can't be bothered to copy someone else's assignment by hand(never mind actually doing the assignment themselves).

This photocopier would - by some very cunning software indeed- be able to understand the content of printed/handwritten pages and then re-write in in your own handwriting/ink colour. An even smarter version would be able re-write key phrases in your own special style.
-- slancaster, May 25 2001

(?) Custom handwriting font http://www.execpc.com/~adw/
This provides a big chunk of what you need. [TickleMeElmo, May 25 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Scan, OCR, print in different font.
-- angel, May 25 2001


Not just any font, your own handwriting font. See link.
-- TickleMeElmo, May 25 2001


Could be useful for stalkers too. You could send letters to a celebrity in their own handwriting, and then you can claim that they were sending them to themselves as publicity for their latest film/record/tofu cookbook in the subsequent courtcase. I don't speak from experience mind...
-- Bedford Van, May 25 2001


Like students haven't been copying each other's assignments before photocopiers were but a Hershey bar in Chester F. Carlson's back pocket?

Tutors and teachers aren't completely illiterate. If we read the same content twice, we know, even if it's in a different handwriting.
-- jutta, May 26 2001


I've had many a (I've never copied anyone else's work, mind you) slacker copy my papers back in Middle school and the teachers never found out. They weren't too bright though.
-- salmon, May 31 2001


Copying another's work doesn't always involve cheating. I often have to photocopy a classmate's notes (after missing a class). It would be great if I could put it back into my own handwriting rather than keep their illegible style. However, if I can't read it, how will the software?
-- wannalearn, Feb 20 2002



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