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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by meanmrmustard92 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @02:40PM (#21886122)
They recently implemented a pretty restrictive freemium subscription model that has tempered my enthusiasm for it massively. 50 snips a month is nothing for grad students.
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by scarmig on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:19PM (#21887727)
4.99/month for unlimited snips isn't exactly onerous. Grad students are known to be able to afford Netflix and Spotify.
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by Silhouette on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:35PM (#21886530)
If grad students in relevant fields aren't one of the main target markets for this kind of product, where do you think they're going to make their money?
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by nicodjimenez on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:22PM (#21886421)
Do you think 100 free Snips per month would be better? We're thinking about how to do a student plan.
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by ttul on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:16PM (#21887709)
How are they supposed to pay themselves in that case? It’s an incredible service.
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by danmg on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:46PM (#21886625)
Grad students will just just maple/mathematica to directly generate latex from an expression.
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Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten ... by jefft255 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:49PM (#21887876)
Which grad students? In CS the use of these is long gone (at least in the two departments I’ve been in). I wonder how prevalent they still are in physics.

But I’m pretty damn sure that physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists all just type their equations straight into latex unless it’s a super complicated computer generated formula, which you don’t typically write in papers..

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