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I'd be more interested if it could provide the LaTeX code for the scanned equation. Then you could write equations by hand and simply scan them in. I'm halfway
by AndrewOMartin 12y ago
I'd be more interested if it could provide the LaTeX code for the scanned equation. Then you could write equations by hand and simply scan them in.
I'm halfway through a thesis, so it's too late for me, but others could have a notorious learning curve eased somewhat.
- Steuard 12y agoI'm betting that interpreting your math handwriting would be quite a bit harder than interpreting printed text. That said, I'd love to have that feature, too.
- tomswartz07 12y agoWhile it's not as full as OCR, there's an app called DeTeXify that will do almost exactly what you describe. Android app link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=coolcherrytrees.software.detexify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=coolcherrytree...
- m1h4 12y agoThe stuff we do under-the-hood would make this relatively simple to implement. We already have a custom, intermediate, math expression language which we use to hold scanned data. One would only need to write a converter from this language to latex instead of the visual typesetting that we display on-screen