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Good stuff. What I think would be a really nice killer app would be using OCR to extract formulas directly into Matlab code. Would be awesome for reproducibili

by davedx 9y ago

Good stuff. What I think would be a really nice killer app would be using OCR to extract formulas directly into Matlab code. Would be awesome for reproducibility studies or just people trying to implement algorithms for whatever reason. Anyone know if there's an app for that already?

jmh530 9y ago
How about PDF to Latex? Matlab allows Latex strings. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/text-with-mathematical-expressions-using-latex.html https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/text-wi...
- coherentpony 9y ago
  At that point, why work with the pdf at all? Why not just work with the tex source?
  - IanCal 9y ago
    The problem is usually not having access to this, just the pdfs.