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Re:Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines by graymatters on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:50PM (#43519031)
2053 is too far away indeed.

“It’s probably not hard…” - how many such wishful thinking statements were uttered by humanity.

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Re:Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines by nextos on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:27PM (#43519274)
Have you tried image to LaTeX translation? It works fairly well already for text plus equations.

I've done this for a 30-page manuscript with no sources, and I was able to recreate the entire document with minimal manual intervention to get a correct PDF.

This is not programming, it's OCR and translation to a very simple markup language. It's a very easy mechanical task.

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