Wired just did a piece on the app: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/homework-grade-now/
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Richard Fateman <[email protected]> wrote: > Math InputPanel and InftyReader both work OK, but not perfect by any means. > > I would expect this program to work only on very clean images well focused > and within > its probably quite limited domain of known notation. That is, excellent > demo-ware but > probably not ready for prime time. This technology is easy at the 20% > level, hard at > the 80%, and beyond state of the art at 95%. If all you want to do is > read novels to > translate into Kindle form, it is close to 100%. But not for math. > > There used to be a free version of InftyReader, maybe not any more? > Camera input (or scanner input) is quite different technically from stylus > (or finger) input. > Also typeset vs handwritten. > > My favorite mostly -under-developed technology is SPEECH --i.e. speaking > math into > your phone or computer. I've done some work on this (search for Math > Speak and Write) > which someone would be free to pick up and run with. Unfortunately it > currently depends > on some windows speech SDK. Could be done with some free speech stuff > maybe. > > > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:21:13 AM UTC-7, Denis Akhiyarov wrote: >> >> I have Note 3, which has 3 programs that recognize stylus-hand-written >> formulas in real-time: >> S Finder + WolframAlpha >> S Note >> MyScript Calculator (mentioned above) >> >> Also Windows has Math Input Panel which is highly integrated with Word >> equations and even Mathematica. >> >> I tried both FineReader and InftyReader and found InftyReader very >> reliable! >> >> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:13:28 AM UTC-5, Francesco Bonazzi wrote: >>> >>> Apparently there's an open issue to recognize math in tesseract (open >>> source OCR software) >>> >>> https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=270 >>> >>> Unfortunately, tesseract seems to have limited support for layout >>> analysis, so it's probably not going to recognize fractions/square roots. >>> >>> Anyways, such an idea would require to use external software unrelated >>> to SymPy (camera handling, OCR, layout analysis and formulae syntax tree >>> building). >>> >>> An OCR engine that working really well, even with very complicated >>> formulae, is InftyReader. Unfortunately it's paid software, they sell the >>> single license for 800 dollars I think (that's crazy!). >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:58:47 PM UTC+2, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This looks really awesome: >>>> >>>> http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/21/photomath/ >>>> >>>> I wish there was something like that for SymPy, that you snap a >>>> picture and it gives you Python code for SymPy to represent the >>>> equation. >>>> >>>> Ondrej >>>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/663ffa2f-3920-4c5b-b2f4-938d0b4eff7c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/663ffa2f-3920-4c5b-b2f4-938d0b4eff7c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AhyS%3DJGr79BKgyMBWpyN_-jC-V7ic1kKnON3LGXtLxWSQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
