[BlindMath] Mathpix versus InftyReader

[Rastislav Kish]

Actually, it seems Mathpix does have a cli tool, which should be 
perfectly useable:

https://mathpix.com/docs/snip/mpx-cli


It requires Node JS, but that's something easily optainable on Windows 
these days, so I wouldn't expect people having problems with it.

Best regards

Rastislav

Dňa 5. 7. 2023 o 9:53 Bert Van Landeghem via BlindMath napísal(a):
> 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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