Re:PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator
by tomswartz07 on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:39AM
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While 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=coolcherrytree...
The 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
I'm halfway through a thesis, so it's too late for me, but others could have a notorious learning curve eased somewhat.