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Re:PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator by AndrewOMartin on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:01AM (#8492278)
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.

Re:PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator by tomswartz07 on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:39AM (#8492396)
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...

Re:PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator by m1h4 on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:55AM (#8492445)
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
Re:PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator by Steuard on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:15AM (#8492306)
I'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.