On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly, this sounds like a waste of time, and the original poster admits he
> doesn't have a clue.
>
> These devices cost $150 or more in US, according to wikipedia. For under
> $250 you can buy
> a low-end laptop that would be fine to run Sage.
>
> The idea that existing technology for handwriting of math is a substitute
> for a keyboard, or that deTexify would be
> of much help requires a substantial misunderstanding of the needed
> technology.
>
> I believe it is easier to get VOICE input of math than handwriting, and
> perfecting that
> in a Sage context might be a fun project. But don't complicate your life by
> programming
> on (or for) a toy.
>
> RJF
> PS. If you can't use google to find references and are truly interested and
I googled the original poster ("Kevin Smith") and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith
It seems that he might be Silent Bob
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Bob), so I'm guessing he might
not be interested in VOICE input.
William
> have some
> skills, feel free to email questions about voice etc.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:24:13 AM UTC-7, Christopher Swenson wrote:
>>
>> Detexify does some neat mathematics handwriting recognition:
>>
>> http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
>>
>> --Christopher
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 24/07/2012 16:13, Jason Ekstrand a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Then the big
>>>> issue would simply be the math handwriting detection (I say simply,
>>>> but it's not that simple).
>>>
>>>
>>> I attended a talk about OCR for mathematics a few years ago, and from
>>> what I remember, recognizing from a picture is indeed very very difficult --
>>> basically because mathematics aren't just line-based and forward-going
>>> (fractions, sub and sup text, accents... a large variety of fonts). I also
>>> remember that if you don't have just the picture but the writing movement
>>> itself, then things are much simpler.
>>>
>>> Snark on #sagemath
>>>
>>>
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