Friday, July 26, 2013

ISOC: mink !

Our 4 weeks are up, and here is the result!

- When you are at school and you have problems solving an equation, Wolfram Alpha is a great tool for helping you. However, if you try to use the built-in keyboard of your tablet or smartphone, you will see that it's quite time consuming. Not only that, but if you miss putting correct parenthesis, you will have to wait for wolfram to evaluate your equation before you can try and put those parenthesis into the correct position.
Also, how do you formulate an integration or a sum? This is where our app come into play:


The idea for mink is to simplify the input of complex mathematical equations onto tablets and smartphones in a natural way.

mink - For easy input of mathematical equations and
solve them with Wolfram Alpha


You can also take a picture of an already written
equation, or from a book!


Your Equation is sent and evaluated in
Wolfram Alpha by one press of a button
Save and load you equations for later evaluation.

Restrictions:

We're at the moment, depended on a third-party service for the Optical Character Recognition, which means that we can't  release mink for the public, yet. Since the service is web-based, user can only get character recognition while online. Since we're using 3rd party, there is also some restrictions on what mink can handle.
Right now it can't handle vectors or systems of equations.

Future:

Something we would like to add to mink is to be able to export the equations in TeX format, so it also could be used for simplifying the input of mathematical equations in LaTeX software. 


We'd like to thank IDA for the time and opportunity they've given us to develop mink and also InnovationskontorEtt for letting us use their office during this time.

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