Identification software for Mathematical symbols?

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Typically if you've forgotten or have never seen a symbol in a math equation before you are forced to read a large part of the context you found it in and guess which name that symbol has. That is too time consuming for me and my picture memory sucks so I forget the meaning of these symbols all the time. Comparing the symbols with a reference list is also rather time consuming, since you need to have the right list and you need to compare each symbol linearly.

In a perfect world people would stop using pictures and use Unicode in their math-equations but nope that's not the kind of world we live in. I was thinking I could program this as an exercise after I've completed my course in Image Recognition but wondering if there already is any software like this.

Does anyone know of software that can identify symbols in math images, or some other easy way?

ColacX

Posted 2013-01-17T20:01:56.803

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2Google Images accepts imports to compare to, probably a very good resource. – nerdwaller – 2013-01-17T20:13:12.087

cool didnt know google had made that. it works quite good actually. all they need now is some way to automate that directly on the page :D its a little bit tedious to print screen the math symbol and edit with paint right now. – ColacX – 2013-01-18T16:18:33.953

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MS Word (and other Office products) have an equation editor w/ tons of symbols, with the names. if you really want to stay away from the Comparative approach, you can try nerdwaller's comment about Google Images, I've had success w/ basic bitmaps and other images. MS also has mathematics software as well, though it sounds like your more going for the image recognition route.

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If you mouse over the symbol it will display the name.

MDMoore313

Posted 2013-01-17T20:01:56.803

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err yes. but for example when reading an math-equation in wikipedia. there's no way to know what the math symbols mean. example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/5/6/a56e1feb27396a1b11d04b6023d6a39a.png it does seem that they are using MSEquation or whatever its called.

– ColacX – 2013-01-18T16:14:31.613

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