New on CTAN: cacography
cacography 0.14.0b1 (first beta): write your notes in LaTeX and get back a phone photo of them handwritten, with a searchable PDF underneath. Needs LuaLaTeX and the separately distributed cacography renderer (pip install cacography). Pictures and installation: https://github.com/aynader/cacography
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/cacography More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/cacography
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Cacography – Typeset in LaTeX, get back a phone photo of handwritten notes
cacography turns a LaTeX document into photorealistic phone photos of handwritten notes. LuaLaTeX lays the document out at handwriting proportions and records every page; a separate renderer writes each page by hand and photographs it on a desk, and the next run places the photos in the PDF over the invisible typeset text, so it stays searchable. Paper, ink, crossouts, margin notes, lighting and camera are package options. The pages are drawn by the Python program cacography (PyPI, MIT licence), whose handwriting models are a separate download for non-commercial research use; neither is part of this package. Without them, documents compile normally and show the typeset text.
| Package | Cacography |
| Version | 0.14.0b1 |
| Copyright | 2026 A. Nader |
| Maintainer | A. Nader |