[Blindmath] LaTeX to MathML (Dzhovani)

[Zach]

Hello all,

Please forgive my ignorance, but would it be possible to import and convert
a PDF from other repositories? Sometimes I deal with articles from J. Dairy
Science and J. Animal Science published before the 80's, and the only
version I can get are PDF's-and sometimes only scans of those. Currently I'm
using OpenBook to recognize the PDF's, but I wondered if there might be
another way to extract information that would more frequently format tables
properly and recognize mathematic notation more accurately. 

Sorry; I'm just always checking in to see if someone's found a better way to
do what I'm already doing. 


Thanks,

Zac


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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Keane via Blindmath
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 2:08 PM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Cc: Kyle Keane <kylek at wolfram.com>
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] LaTeX to MathML (Dzhovani)

As an exercise I spent a few hours today seeing if I could deploy a quick
and dirty web app that would grab the equations from an arxiv article and
return them in an HTML document as MathML. 
I think I had some success, although it certainly needs some refinement. 
You can test the app at
https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/10f82ee8-946b-401b-8997-1906b87da404 

You will need the arxiv identifier for the article, which has the form
####.#####. 
If you need a version of an article other than v1, you should enter that as
a number in the second input field in the app. 

The h1 of the resulting HTML will tell you if equations were imported
successfully. 
If the importer is successful it will spit out a web page with a bunch of
h2's with the label of the equation. 
Inside the h2 will be the actual MathML of the equation. 

You can save the resulting file as HTML for later use. 
If you can read through your article somewhere else and find the label for
an equation, then you can search for the MathML over here. 

I realize, that you want a full importer, but this is what I could make in a
few hours. 

The source code for deploying this web app is available on GitHub and
available for the community under the MIT License at
https://github.com/KyleKeane/arxiv-a11y-importer 

Hope this helps in some way,
Kyle 




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