I'm not sure if this will help the immediate need, but the ASTER program
is the work of blind mathematician's PhD work and can "read" mathematics
(and arithmetic expressions) that have been typeset with the TeX system.
You can find more info here
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/aster/demo.html
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La Trobe University, Bendigo
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