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Typing equations in LaTeX takes time and I was wondering if there is a software that converts a handwritten equation (on a tablet or a scanned paper) into typed equation in LaTeX

Does such a software exist?

Moa
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    If you are using windows, try inlage: http://www.inlage.com/. It can recognise some thing like that. –  Feb 15 '15 at 02:39
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  • I would be surprised if there was something less time-consuming which could do this. Especially since OCR is not very good at hand-written text, never mind maths! @HarishKumar Is that for whole equations or just characters? (I couldn't tell much from the description.) – cfr Feb 15 '15 at 02:52
  • @cfr You can do whole equations! –  Feb 15 '15 at 03:20
  • @HarishKumar And it works? – cfr Feb 15 '15 at 03:20
  • And there is http://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html#InftyReader. –  Feb 15 '15 at 03:21
  • @cfr What do you mean? I never use it but it should work. –  Feb 15 '15 at 03:21
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    http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1443/what-is-the-status-of-generating-latex-from-handwriting-i-e-ocr?rq=1 – cfr Feb 15 '15 at 03:23
  • @HarishKumar My impression of OCR has generally been that it is getting to be not bad for printed stuff - text, at least, but maybe maths too. But that handwriting is still a big unknown. Of course, I dare say it depends on your writing, too. But I'd expect to spend a lot of time checking for errors etc. I just doubt the status of any solution here as a way to speed things up. – cfr Feb 15 '15 at 03:25
  • @cfr I agree with you on this point. handwriting is more suitable for hand held devices like tablets. And I am very bad in that too. :-) –  Feb 15 '15 at 04:56
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    @cfr: here: Possible to Convert Math in Picture into LaTeX? How? –  Feb 15 '15 at 04:58

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