Re: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Mathematics

"John Goche" <johngoche99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:6d519142-6b0a-4131-b181-ea201aac2999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello,

How difficult would it be to use OCR to scan some
mathematics (such as mathematics produced using
the LaTeX typesetting system) and have a LaTeX
source file output as a result of applying OCR
software on the scanned in mathematics?
What are the current free and comercial
OCR software available for this purpose?
The main problem would be, IMHO, to recognize formulas in
scanned images. Outputting those formulas as LaTeX, once
they are recognized, seems like a very minor problem to me.

One program that tries to recognize formulas in scanned images is

http://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html#InftyReader

Regards,
Christian


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: English versus German
    ... I used to use LaTeX for all my lecture notes and journal papers when I was still with the university teaching engineering. ... especially the page layout facilities. ... Nowadays I don't write much mathematics, and I haven't even bothered to install LaTeX on this computer. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: If you write code, read this.
    ... It is the required format for submissions to ... professional mathematics journals. ... collection "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" is done in LaTeX with the ... but submissions in other formats could ...
    (comp.lang.forth)
  • Re: English versus German
    ... Nowadays I don't write much mathematics, ... I agree that if I was interested in trying to write professional-looking linguistics text involving lots of them small caps, it might well be more convenient to do it via a "shortcut". ... far as page layout etc is concerned compared with LaTeX. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: does exist a style guide for latex math typing?
    ... style guide) to type math using latex. ... documentation I have found it is related to how to type math using ... "Mathematics into Type" by Ellen Swanson, ...
    (comp.text.tex)
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Mathematics
    ... How difficult would it be to use OCR to scan some ... mathematics (such as mathematics produced using ... the LaTeX typesetting system) and have a LaTeX ... OCR software available for this purpose? ...
    (comp.text.tex)