[BlindMath] Mathpix versus InftyReader

[Bert Van Landeghem]

Dear  Rastislav,

Thank you for your email. I have used InftyReader quite a lot for years
now. Sometimes, it was extremely helpful and provided me with usable
output, but in other instances, the output is less reliable. Thank you for
your offer. If indeed you could provide us with some code / a script to
convert a PDF file with Mathpix to LaTeX from the command line that would
be really useful!

Kind regards,
Bert

On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 02:02, Rastislav Kish via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I guess it depends on the use case.
>
> I have tried some images with Infty reader, but I didn't get any
> meaningful output, just a load of random characters.
>
>
> Mathpix, on the other hand, performed quite well, there was no PDF
> OCR+Math recognition back at the time, so I developed a small utility to
> help me capture the equations :)
>
> https://github.com/RastislavKish/math_scanner
>
>
> Now, Mathpix offers a complete PDF recognition, including OCR and
> automatic math expressions processing. After their algorithm rewrite
> some time ago, the results were quite impressive, at least on the
> relatively simple test I tried.
>
>
> I didn't do a more complex testing afterwards, since I had enough of
> accessible material for the time.
>
>
> I'm not sure about the Mathpix software interface, but their API is
> simple enough to be used from a script via curl.
>
>
> I could write a simple terminal utility for Mathpix processing documents
> if you don't want to bother with the documentation. ;)
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Rastislav
>
>
> Dňa 3. 7. 2023 o 12:08 Bert Van Landeghem via BlindMath napísal(a):
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Has anybody done a fairly thorough comparison of InftyReader and Mathpix?
> > Are there differences in performance between the two packages? Also, how
> > accessible is Mathpix for Windows? I have downloaded the software but do
> > not seem to be able to tab from the Create account button to the Login
> > button. Mathpix also has an API which allows developers to use the OCR in
> > their own applications. Is there any interesting software (under
> > development) using the API which is worth considering?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Bert
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Bert
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