Handwriting can tell a lot about a person, his character, and emotional state. Seneca drew attention to the relationship between handwriting and individual personality traits. And Jean Gabriel Tarde, known for his research in the field of criminology and subjective psychology, wrote that he learns more about a person from a written piece of paper than from a photograph. So what does handwriting say about a person from a psychological point of view? What should you pay special attention to when analyzing it?
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A man and his handwriting
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Any action of a person to some extent reflects his character and individual characteristics. Sitting in the dark, you recognize who has come by the sounds in the entrance or the way you open the door. Sometimes you feel the mood of this person.
The same goes for handwriting. Despite the fact that at school everyone is taught to write in the same way, evenly, beautifully, each child writes in his own way from the first days of school. Unconsciously chooses the size of letters, direction, slope, connectedness. Then he comes up with curls, the shape of sticks, and a special pattern of commas.
The way a person conveys information to paper reflects his vision of the world, character, and temperament. This happens due to the fact that hand movements are a consequence of the interaction of all body systems. The mental state has an impact on the nervous system, which, in turn, sends impulses to muscle tissue, forcing you to move your arms and fingers.
For example, you are used to being in a hurry, so your movements are always impatient, your letters are sweeping, large, and discordant. If you don’t want to show what you are like, you try to hide within yourself or behind the backs of others, the letters will be tight and small.
However, do not rush to put labels or describe a person’s character based on their handwriting. The peculiarities of writing letters and combining them into words are influenced by age and somatic diseases.
And now a few secrets about what handwriting can tell about a person.
Psychological maturity
It is difficult to determine biological age from handwriting, but psychological age is possible. This concept denotes the degree of personal maturity, independence and self-sufficiency. The number in the passport does not play a role here. There are both infantile old people and mature students. Graphologists distinguish between “children’s” and “adult” handwriting.
We start from whether the person has mastered the writing standards proposed in the copybook. These are generally accepted average standards. If not, then the individual has not grown personally.
Tatiana Gudelova
senior psychologist of riot police (in transport) of the Main Directorate of the Russian Guard for the city of Moscow and graphologist
The graphologist said: the older a person becomes, the less “detailed elaboration” of letters and symbols, for example, curved tails, is observed in his handwriting. The writing style of a mature person is more simplified, all letters are easy to read.
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The person has grown as a person. Psychological age - from 30 to 45 years. Readability, roundness of letters and their “softness”, simplification relative to copywriting standards speak of adulthood and consciousness.
Size
Often the first thing that catches your eye when you look at a scribbled piece of paper is the size of the letters. It is generally accepted that large handwriting indicates an open, kind person. He has no internal pressures, he easily gets to know people, he is trusting, sensitive, and generous. Loves to be paid attention to. He can be an excellent leader who is respected by colleagues and subordinates.
But there is another trend - letters become larger in older people.
Small handwriting often indicates isolation and restraint. It can be found in shy people who are prone to self-expression, showing themselves only in special situations. They do not like noise, companies, and find it difficult to get along with strangers.
Often small letters appear on pages written by a pedantic person with an analytical mind. He is probably attentive and observant. In stressful situations, he tries to behave with restraint; At the same time, it accumulates tension and can later pour it out through unexpected hysterics and outbursts of anger.
Tendency to violence
Any graphologist can determine a tendency towards such a negative trait. It is important when hiring for law enforcement agencies and educational institutions. Suspects of crimes are also subjected to similar diagnostics by experts.
If we consider violence as the use of physical force and power with the aim of causing harm to another creature, then in the handwriting we will find the following markers: strong intense pressure, blunt endings of strokes, angularity, powerful “sticks” similar to clubs in the lower branches of the letters, congestion of space sheet and general instability of signs , ” explained the graphologist.
According to the expert, none of the owners of the two handwriting samples offered to her turned out to be prone to violence.
Form
The shape of the handwriting can be round, angular, or printed. Beautiful rounded letters indicate that the person who wrote them has a cheerful and kind character. This is probably a harmonious, calm personality. She treats other people with patience and understanding.
Angular letters are evidence of independence, leadership, the desire to be critical of everything, and not to succumb to the thoughtless persuasion of others. A tendency to compete is often found.
What does our handwriting say about us?
Angular handwriting can be confused with sharp handwriting. In relation to the owners of the latter, they say that they can be aggressive, at the same time insightful and intelligent. They are accused of selfishness and ignoring the interests of other people.
Hidden behind the hand-written block letters is a person with developed self-control. He constantly monitors his own and others’ behavior and emotions. Tends to wear a mask that well hides his true self. From here we can talk about a lack of trust, perhaps attempts to protect oneself from the assessments and criticism of others.
Physicist or lyricist
Having a sample of a person’s handwriting in hand, a graphologist can make a conclusion about the type of activity in which a person will be most effective. The handwriting of a born news journalist is different from the writing of the words of a philosophical writer.
Psychologist and graphologist Anna Strokina compared two handwritings especially for NEWS.ru.
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Sample No. 1 has a social orientation, while a person with handwriting No. 2 will get tired of a lot of communication. The first number should be based on facts and figures, have a quick reaction, and be purposeful. This is evidenced by the right tilt, the predominance of straight lines, angularity, and parallelism of the lines. The second one has a hard time with strict regulation; the creative component of the work and the opportunity to experience the process are very important to him. The owner of the first example will show himself well in administration, and No. 2 is more likely to realize himself as a philosopher and writer. This is evidenced by the direct slope, the original shape of the letters, the vertical spread, and separate writing.
Anna Strokina
psychologist, graphologist
Incline
An important characteristic is the slope. Most often you can see handwriting slanted to the right. It is impossible to say something specific and special about a person only based on the fact that the words he wrote are tilted to the right. This is a feature that is taught in school. The only conclusion that can be drawn is a possible tendency towards conformity.
A strong tilt to the right speaks of determination, a strong-willed character, and a desire for achievement.
The habit of writing without tilting, almost vertically, may indicate a tendency to analyze all the events of the surrounding world. Perhaps you are used to controlling everything and don’t know how to let go of problematic situations. You have good willpower; You are often accused of being stubborn.
A tilt to the left can indicate a desire for originality, melancholicity, self-searching, attempts to hide from others, and emotional coldness.
No matter how bright the stripes are that indicate the rows in a notebook, there are people who cannot write straight. Words move up or down. In the first case, we can talk about ambition, optimism, determination, and the desire to achieve goals. If letters and words go down, a person is characterized by self-doubt, pessimism, and a tendency toward apathy. He is characterized by lack of initiative and passivity.
Tendency to gluttony
A graphologist cannot determine a person’s eating habits by handwriting. But it is possible to identify a tendency to spontaneous overeating and dependence on food.
We will track this by the prevalence of instinctive impulses in the letter over the rational, controlling principle, we will notice the instability of the signs, the edges of the line will be overflowing with ink and at the same time the stroke itself will be weakened, “soft , ” Strokina said .
People who are emotional, impulsive, and with an unstable psyche are more prone to binge eating.
Pressure
A decisive, self-confident person presses the pen firmly when writing. The letters are thick; one gets the feeling that they are smugly taking up entire lines. The one who wrote them may be purposeful, principled, and future-oriented.
Behind the weak pressure one senses a weak-willed, shy personality. She easily obeys other people and changes her mind under their influence. It seems that a person strives to do everything so that not a trace remains of his life.
Writing lowercase letters.
Vowels open at the top (a gap in the writing of the letters “a”, “o” at the top) are an indicator of peacefulness, gullibility and the ability to empathize, and the presence of deep attachments.
Vowels open at the bottom, on the contrary, speak of possible hypocrisy, insincerity and superficiality of feelings.
Long loops of letters (for example, “u”, “d”), reaching the bottom line or even overlapping it, indicate an intuitive beginning in a person, whose trust sometimes obscures the ability to think logically.
Small loops are evidence of conciseness in speech and deeds, realism, and the ability to speak only to the point and taking into account the place and time.
beauty
Sometimes you look at a written text and admire how smoothly and beautifully it is written. All letters are identical in size, shape, and connected to each other. Behind beautiful handwriting there may be a person who does not want others to know about his inner world. In any situation, he manages to build a beautiful façade, as if he were saying: “Admire me, admire me.” He is neat and knows how to pay attention to details.
Poor handwriting, illegible, more like scribbles, speaks of an impulsive person who is capable of causing a scandal to defend his point of view. Such a person does not have time to write beautifully; his hands act slower than his brain makes decisions. Bad handwriting speaks of sloppiness, reluctance to “show off” in front of others, and nonconformism.
Sometimes you may encounter clumsy writing. The letters dance and can have different shapes, some of them are angular, others are round. There are different slants in the same text. All this speaks of disorganization, inability to deal with difficulties, and indecision. However, sometimes those with clumsy handwriting are very talented people.
From a psychological point of view, handwriting can tell a lot of interesting things about people. The way of writing reveals the secrets of character, emotional world, and personal characteristics.
Text Scanner - recognizes handwritten text
Text Scanner, like the first program, is designed for mobile devices. But this is also a plus, because now each of us always has a phone with us, wherever we are, which means that we can recognize handwritten text when we need it.
What is the functionality capable of? ●Text Scanner analyzes the file and scans text from the image - both printed and handwritten; ●In automatic mode, determines the text language; ●Uses modern text recognition technologies; ●Supports more than one hundred languages; ●You can send the result to different applications. Go to the app and game store on your smartphone, search for Text Scanner and install it. It is light in weight, so it will not take up much memory in your phone.
How to use this application? 1.You need to download it from Google Play and log in.
2.Select a file from the device and upload it.
3.After 10 seconds you will see the result, the text from the photo will be written separately in the result window, from where you can perform the necessary actions with it.
Text Scanner is praised by many for its speed and quality of work. It quickly completes the task, which is very important if you are in a hurry.
OCR - a simple online scanner of doctor's prescriptions based on photos
The developers position this application as the most accurate written text recognizer. Whether this is actually true, everyone will have to verify for themselves, since the results largely depend on the doctor’s handwriting and the quality of the prescription photograph. The free version contains ads and has a limit on the number of scans. But it’s more than enough for a test.
How to use the program to decipher a recipe:
- Download the OSK scanner to your Android device from this link and run it. If you receive requests for permission to use phone functions, such as the camera or file system, you must agree.
- The application is called “Simple OCR” and how simple it is can be seen right away - a minimum of buttons and functions. On the start page, click on the plus icon to add documents for scanning.
- A doctor's prescription can be added both from the device gallery and from the camera. Choose the option that suits you and upload a photo of the recipe.
- Then you have to process the photo. It is necessary to ensure that it has the correct position, not upside down, and that only the text is visible on it, without unnecessary elements. There are controls at the bottom for rotation, and for cropping there is a frame, by moving the borders of which you can crop the image.
- When the image is ready, click on the blue arrow button at the bottom right.
- Recognition takes some time, which depends on the volume and quality of the text. As a result, you will see the recognized text, which, if necessary, you can edit, translate, copy, convert to .pdf and perform other operations with it.
This may be useful: Search by photo from your phone in Yandex.
PDF24 Tools – browser-based online medical handwriting recognizer
In order to recognize a doctor’s handwriting without registering or installing third-party applications, you can use the PDF24 Tools online service. This method is suitable for laptops, computers, tablets and mobile phones. Algorithm for working with PDF24 Tools:
- You need to go to any convenient browser, follow the link tools.pdf24.org/ru/ocr-pdf and click on the “Select files” button.
- After uploading the photo, the additional options section will open. You will need to activate “Handwritten Pages” and make adjustments to the settings (at your own discretion). Pressing the “Start OCR” button will start the text recognition process.
When the recognition process is complete, you can save the processed document in PDF format.
