Here's a neat piece of software I spotted via a re–tweet from @eddedmondson on Twitter:
It's called Mathpix and it lets you take screen captures of equations which it then turns into LaTeX code. I thought I'd try it out with something quite stretching in the form of a slightly poorly scanned pdf of Max Planck's paper from 1900 Ueber das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum. Here is a screencap of the original equation:
As you can see, it's not perfectly scanned in, especially in the horizontal lines of the fractions. Mathpix, though, did a fine job. It said "We had trouble reading that. Try zooming in for a better result." but the result was exactly right. Its LaTeX result is
It's called Mathpix and it lets you take screen captures of equations which it then turns into LaTeX code. I thought I'd try it out with something quite stretching in the form of a slightly poorly scanned pdf of Max Planck's paper from 1900 Ueber das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum. Here is a screencap of the original equation:
As you can see, it's not perfectly scanned in, especially in the horizontal lines of the fractions. Mathpix, though, did a fine job. It said "We had trouble reading that. Try zooming in for a better result." but the result was exactly right. Its LaTeX result is
\(E=\frac{8 \pi c h}{\lambda^{5}} \cdot \frac{1}{e^{\frac{c h}{k \lambda \vartheta}}-1}\)
and its own graphical rendering comes out as
So pretty good really.
So pretty good really.
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