Alternatively, instead of taking a picture, you can scan the handwriting. But for the carbon fiber object, I tried doing the scanning method but it justs didnt give good results.
To make it a little quicker resizing, adjust the anchor point so you don't have to keep moving the object. Good tutorial though - thanks for posting. For taking the photo, just put the camera on something that will support it 90 degrees above the object (box, glass, etc).
Tried it. Didnt work too well on my epson workforce scanner since the piece was not completely flat and you can see se defined shadows on the final scan which looks like its part of the piece. Very hard to auto trace.