[sympy] Re: Use camera to read equations

2014-10-22 Thread Francesco Bonazzi
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.

Re: [sympy] Digest for sympy@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

2014-10-22 Thread Denis Akhiyarov
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. I tried both FineReader and InftyReader yesterday

Re: [sympy] Digest for sympy@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

2014-10-22 Thread Denis Akhiyarov
actually InftyReader works great and free for personal use! On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Denis Akhiyarov denis.akhiya...@gmail.com 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

[sympy] Re: Use camera to read equations

2014-10-22 Thread Denis Akhiyarov
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

[sympy] Re: [RFC] what test to add for an issue

2014-10-22 Thread Chris Smith
At https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/7245, this discussion has arisen again. As long as the added test is fast it's not that big of an issue but it is one that could be addressed with a written policy regarding adding tests so we don't have to reiterate that issues which are noticed to no

[sympy] Re: Use camera to read equations

2014-10-22 Thread Richard Fateman
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

Re: [sympy] Re: Use camera to read equations

2014-10-22 Thread Jason Moore
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 fate...@gmail.com wrote: Math InputPanel and InftyReader both work OK, but not perfect by any means. I would expect