Wired just did a piece on the app:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/homework-grade-now/


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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
>>>>
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