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- From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: What About OCRing Math?
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 01:46:56 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Let's say you wanted to check one of those handbooks of
- formulas. It would be great if you could do some kind of OCR
- of the book and transfer what you get to your favorite symbolic
- math program. The problem is that none of the popular OCR programs
- 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.
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- Is this right? Is anybody working on OCRing math with this goal in mind?
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- Anything you read here is my opinion and in no way represents the Univ. of Cal.
- Jon Forrest WB6EDM forrest@postgres.berkeley.edu 510-643-6764
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