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Oh god. An app like that, with a full pdf to LaTeX file converter, would be a godsend for the blind community. We usually sturggle a lot with mathematics in PDF

Oh god. An app like that, with a full pdf to LaTeX file converter, would be a godsend for the blind community. We usually sturggle a lot with mathematics in PDF documents, as it's usually not accessible for screen readers at all. TeX isn't the most pleasant thing to listen to, but it's at least plain asci text that any screen reader can process.

throwlaplace 7y ago
well that's an interesting (tough) problem. it's made infinitely more difficult given how many different ways there are to read a typeset expression. are you blind mathematician? i have a related question: are you an algebraist or a geometer? are you good at mental arithmetic?
nicodjimenez 7y ago
Hey, Mathpix founder here. I'm doing some research on how we can do just that, would love to chat if you're up for it, please ping me nico@mathpix.com.
- app4soft 7y ago
  Could you provide AppImage for Linux? Really bored with Snap/snapd.[0] [0] https://snapcraft.io/mathpix-snipping-tool https://snapcraft.io/mathpix-snipping-tool
- georgewsinger 7y ago
  This is a 1-liner in Wolfram Programming Language: ‘Speak[SpokenString[ToExpression[texExpression, TeXForm]]]’, for ‘texExpression’ an arbitrary TeX formula. See https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpokenString.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpokenString.html I’ve been looking for a way to convert math texts to audiobooks, but haven’t actually implemented anything.
  - throwlaplace 7y ago
    now that's cool
  - georgewsinger 7y ago
    See https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/george.w.singer/texToSpokenString https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/george.w.singer/texToSpoken... for a demonstration. Put any tex string into the form and it will be converted into a spoken formula.
digitalengineer 7y ago
I just posted this in the WCAG Facebook group and found out there’s this as well: https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/ https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/
- nicodjimenez 7y ago
  Equatio is powered by MathpixOCR (https://mathpix.com/ocr https://mathpix.com/ocr)
daxcastro 7y ago
Miki, we take a lot of time to make sure that our multi-level formulas are captured as figures and then alternate text writing out phonetically for our engineering documents. We have been struggling with a better workflow since this take a lot of time when dealing with 1,000 page documents. Our testing criteria are JAWS and NVDA. Any insight you might give on this would be super. Right now it is just a long and tedious process.

throwlaplace 7y ago

well that's an interesting (tough) problem. it's made infinitely more difficult given how many different ways there are to read a typeset expression. are you blind mathematician? i have a related question: are you an algebraist or a geometer? are you good at mental arithmetic?

nicodjimenez 7y ago

Hey, Mathpix founder here. I'm doing some research on how we can do just that, would love to chat if you're up for it, please ping me nico@mathpix.com.

app4soft 7y ago
Could you provide AppImage for Linux? Really bored with Snap/snapd.[0] [0] https://snapcraft.io/mathpix-snipping-tool https://snapcraft.io/mathpix-snipping-tool
georgewsinger 7y ago
This is a 1-liner in Wolfram Programming Language: ‘Speak[SpokenString[ToExpression[texExpression, TeXForm]]]’, for ‘texExpression’ an arbitrary TeX formula. See https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpokenString.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SpokenString.html I’ve been looking for a way to convert math texts to audiobooks, but haven’t actually implemented anything.
- throwlaplace 7y ago
  now that's cool
- georgewsinger 7y ago
  See https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/george.w.singer/texToSpokenString https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/george.w.singer/texToSpoken... for a demonstration. Put any tex string into the form and it will be converted into a spoken formula.

digitalengineer 7y ago

I just posted this in the WCAG Facebook group and found out there’s this as well: https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/ https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/

nicodjimenez 7y ago
Equatio is powered by MathpixOCR (https://mathpix.com/ocr https://mathpix.com/ocr)

daxcastro 7y ago

Miki, we take a lot of time to make sure that our multi-level formulas are captured as figures and then alternate text writing out phonetically for our engineering documents. We have been struggling with a better workflow since this take a lot of time when dealing with 1,000 page documents. Our testing criteria are JAWS and NVDA. Any insight you might give on this would be super. Right now it is just a long and tedious process.