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Detexify recognizes hand-written math symbols

July 13th, 2009 at 5:31 am

Does it ever happen to you that you don’t remember the Latex code for some mathematical symbol? What can you do then except wading through pages of Latex symbols trying to locate the right one?

Well, no more! Detexify is a great new service that allows you to “draw” the symbol you’re looking for:

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… and it will suggest the Latex code.

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Detexify is a learning OCR classifier, and can be “trained” by users to improve it’s performance.

Kudos to the creator of Detexify for a great project. It will definitely be useful…

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3 Responses to “Detexify recognizes hand-written math symbols”

  1. DanNo Gravatar Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 10:25

    Thank you very much, this is mighty useful!

  2. abelNo Gravatar Says:
    July 15th, 2009 at 03:06

    Maple got this feature too… I remember thinking how cool it was… smart thing to have it on the web

  3. Tim DumolNo Gravatar Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 12:41

    Excellent site. Thank you.