# Text manipulation

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/text-manipulation/27408>\
**Category:** Gallery\
**Created:** [January 27, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/text-manipulation/27408 "2021-01-27T13:53:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulgoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/text-manipulation/27408/1 "2021-01-27T13:53:22Z")

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there have been a few text manipulation in processing requests recently, so I thought I’d give it a go. Here is my attempt.

> **[GitHub - paulgoux/textContour](https://github.com/paulgoux/textContour)**
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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_1-Osy7k1pw/hqdefault.jpg "Text manipulation Java Processing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-Osy7k1pw)

the vertices are all sorted in order and trimmed to remove singular points.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LTD5EbQJUwU/hqdefault.jpg "text manipulation 2 Java Processing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTD5EbQJUwU)