Works like a charm on my Surface Pro 3. Incredibly impressed, One note doesn't recognize my handwriting well but this is incredible as a math undegrad !
As many have said, an open-source app would be a godsend.
Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
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Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#12Open source?
Looks like it's closed source with a liberal free plan.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#13Very neat. One problem is immediate: when I handwrite an "x" for maths, it is as two 'c's touching back-to-back, so as not to confuse with some multiplication/cross-product symbol; such input proves very confusing to this code.
Odd, I've done the same thing now and it has worked flawlessly. Maybe it is learning from the "Perfect / Poor" votes.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#14awesome! how does it work? recurrent neural network?
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#15Nice! I can't wait to try it on my touch screen PC.
Tried it -- it doesn't work on my Linux laptop touch-screen, because hand gestures count only as mouse moves, not drags. Windows might differ. Update -- it does work on an Android tablet, where hand gestures do count as drags. Very nice -- if only my tablet were twice as big so my fingers wouldn't get in each others' way. Pretty slick. Now to get it as an open-source app.
Touch works for me in Chromium on Linux, and Chromium on OpenBSD.
Make sure you have touch events working in general. I don't think Firefox supports them yet on X11.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#16LaTeX is super cool for mathematics and academic papers. For my book though I had to migrate off to InDesign because it was just much easier/quicker to get it to do what I wanted.
I got pretty good with InDesign during high school, where I took Graphic Communications at our vo-tech. It really is an awesome tool for getting print ready. We used it in conjunction with an actual printing press.
If I had to do it now I would use LaTeX though. For me, open always trumps proprietary when available, and because of their proprietary sort of walled garden nature, Adobe is not a company I would like to support.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#17On a somewhat related note, does anyone have any particularly nice ways of writing math-related notes?
Part of me wants to just hand-write them and then maybe scan them, but that's not searchable/indexable, and doesn't lend itself well to version control.
Writing in TeX or LaTeX would make them searchable/indexable, but this seems a little heavyweight for just notes (like answers to exercises). I don't use TeX/LaTeX that often, so I feel like I'd be spending half of my mental energy figuring out how to format things, figuring out how to invoke the tools, what packages to install, etc.
Are there any nice solutions out there for this sort of thing?
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#18Very impressive. It worked very well for me.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#19Very neat. One problem is immediate: when I handwrite an "x" for maths, it is as two 'c's touching back-to-back, so as not to confuse with some multiplication/cross-product symbol; such input proves very confusing to this code.
Odd, I've done the same thing now and it has worked flawlessly. Maybe it is learning from the "Perfect / Poor" votes.
I just retried, and it does now gets it right for me too. Wow.
Re: Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
#20From what I can tell, it had a hard time distinguishing matrices from vectors. What I wanted was:
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