Math2Tex
AI
ocr for math notation
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How HN took it
1 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Welcomed as a useful tool for the LaTeX community
From 1 comment
This is great! The LaTeX community will grow much more thanks to user friendly tools.
lorenzohess on HN
Objections
Sign-in is required, which some users won't do
From 2 comments
I won't log in to a site i don't know or trust
raphar on HNIs it possible to ad a whiteboard to draw simple formulas? It requires a Google account. Is it possible to show a precalculated result for the examples? (I like the examples! But…
gus_massa on HN
Failed to convert a photo of Chinese handwritten physics notes
From 1 comment
I uploaded a picture of handwritten note. Why doesn't it return latex code? Below is the output(source code part) of your website: 二. 毕萨伐尔定律: B=∫dB = ∫(μ₀I dl × eᵣ)/(4πr²) 1.…
jasonni on HN
Model and code are closed; commenters want open weights
From 3 comments
I'm always happy to see more innovation in this area. It'd be great if you could make your model, weights, and training corpus public (preferably under a permissive license) on…
wittjeff on HNI agree that it would be nice if the model was open weights and could run locally. I have digitized almost all of my college handwritten notes, I would love to transcribe them,…
MayeulC on HNis the source open?
projectile_ on HN
Post text appears LLM-generated
From 1 comment
Any reason for using a transformer architecture? You look at https://olmocr.allenai.org/ which does the best handwritten-to-latex in my opinion also does use VLM. Also maybe xD…
mostlyk on HN
Requests
Open-source the model, weights and training corpus
From 3 comments
I'm always happy to see more innovation in this area. It'd be great if you could make your model, weights, and training corpus public (preferably under a permissive license) on…
wittjeff on HNI agree that it would be nice if the model was open weights and could run locally. I have digitized almost all of my college handwritten notes, I would love to transcribe them,…
MayeulC on HNis the source open?
projectile_ on HN
Add a whiteboard for drawing formulas
From 1 comment
Is it possible to ad a whiteboard to draw simple formulas? It requires a Google account. Is it possible to show a precalculated result for the examples? (I like the examples! But…
gus_massa on HN
Show precomputed example outputs without login
From 2 comments
Is it possible to ad a whiteboard to draw simple formulas? It requires a Google account. Is it possible to show a precalculated result for the examples? (I like the examples! But…
gus_massa on HNI was proposing some samples where the result is calculated by you beforehand, so it's possible to see the result without login in. (Pinky promise that you are not cheating and…
gus_massa on HN
Provide an API
From 1 comment
Do you have an api?
acosmism on HN
Questions
Where did the large handwritten math dataset come from?
From 1 comment
Where did you get a large dataset of handwritten maths? I have been looking for such a thing, and I have a lot of my own, but that's just one person's handwriting. I have had a…
mkl on HN
Why use a transformer architecture rather than other VLM approaches?
From 1 comment
Any reason for using a transformer architecture? You look at https://olmocr.allenai.org/ which does the best handwritten-to-latex in my opinion also does use VLM. Also maybe xD…
mostlyk on HN
Will benchmarks be run against Mathpix and other tools?
From 1 comment
I'm always happy to see more innovation in this area. It'd be great if you could make your model, weights, and training corpus public (preferably under a permissive license) on…
wittjeff on HN
Alternatives named
Mathpix (paid)
From 1 comment
Thank you! The other popular tools I'm aware of in this space is MathPix [1] (paid) and Latex-OCR [2] (oss) [1] https://mathpix.com/image-to-latex [2]…
krackers on HN
LaTeX-OCR (open source)
From 1 comment
Thank you! The other popular tools I'm aware of in this space is MathPix [1] (paid) and Latex-OCR [2] (oss) [1] https://mathpix.com/image-to-latex [2]…
krackers on HN
inftyeditor and ffes
From 1 comment
There were already a couple of tools in this space for folks to contrast/compare: inftyeditor: https://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html ffes:…
WillAdams on HN
Detexify
From 1 comment
detexify (https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html) also does drawn character identification and is a webpage.
DroneBetter on HN
Qwen2.5-VL via Ollama
From 1 comment
Where did you get a large dataset of handwritten maths? I have been looking for such a thing, and I have a lot of my own, but that's just one person's handwriting. I have had a…
mkl on HN
olmOCR
From 1 comment
Any reason for using a transformer architecture? You look at https://olmocr.allenai.org/ which does the best handwritten-to-latex in my opinion also does use VLM. Also maybe xD…
mostlyk on HN