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- From: rivero <rivero@cc.unizar.es>
- Subject: Re: What About OCRing Math?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.192143.4774@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:21:43 GMT
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- In article <1dsd2gINNdur@agate.berkeley.edu> Jon Forrest,
- forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU writes:
- >I'm aware of can do this, either because they can't recognize the
- >math symbols or because there is no canonical representation for
- >math that they could use as their intermediate form which could easily
- >be saved as Maple, Mathematica, or whatever.
- >
- >Is this right? Is anybody working on OCRing math with this goal in mind?
-
- So you know of a OCR capable of reading math formulae? Which one?
- We have a lot of old material to be rewritten in TeX, and no time
- for it.
-
- By the way, I think that there is a package to translate TeX to
- Mathematica and back, so perhaps a OCR with TeX output would
- be the solution for your problem too.
-
- Alejandro Rivero
- .
-