README.md

LaTeXer

Turn your handwritten equations into LaTeX!

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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Description
• Testing
• To Do

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Description

Application to help you turn your handwritten mathmatical equations into inline LaTeX code.

Testing

1. Clone and configure your environment

git clone https://github.com/BoulaZa5/latexer
cd latexer
sudo bash ./scripts/configure_latexer.sh

2. Try the command line interface

python3 ./src/latexercli.py --image ./data/1.jpg

3. Try the JSON request API

python3 ./src/latexerapi.py
firefox http://127.0.0.1:5000/latexer?image=./data/1.jpg

4. Try the Web Application

   You need to have php, nodejs installed on your machine

   cd beta
   php -S localhost:8000

   open another terminal in the master branch

   cd latexConverter
   node server.js

   open another terminal in the master branch

   cd src/latexer/
   export FLASK_APP=latexerapi.py
   flask run

   in your browser

   http://localhost:8000

To Do

• Image Preprocessing
• OCR
• OCR output cleaner
• String equation to LaTeX
• String equation parser
• Parsetree to LaTeX
• CLI
• API
• Web Application
• Desktop Application
• Mobile Application