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I'm happy to announce the first release of Hieroglyphic, a forked and updated version of TeX-Match, which helps to find LaTeX symbols by drawing them. It's available for download on Flathub (flathub.org/apps/io.github.fin…).

#GNOME #TeXLaTeX

An application window showing a split window. On the left side is a drawing area with a hand drawn lambda symbol. The right side shows a list view with different recognized LaTeX symbols and their commands.

Install Hieroglyphic on Linux | Flathub

Find LaTeX symbols
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#gnome #texlatex
in reply to FineFindus

Sonny
Sonny
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I've never used LaTeX in my life but this cool!

Can we do something like that to search across utf-8 ?

Would it even give good results?

in reply to Sonny

Thibaut
Thibaut
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Sure: shapecatcher.com/
(Not all UTF-8 though)

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want!

You need to find a specific Unicode character? With Shapecatcher.com you can search through a database of characters by simply drawing your character into a box. It can find the most similar character shapes for your drawing.
shapecatcher.com
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in reply to Thibaut

Sonny
Sonny
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@Thib I meant in a gnome app ofc :)

Could be a nice addition to GNOME Characters

@Thibaut
in reply to Sonny

FineFindus
FineFindus
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@sonny Thanks for the kind words.

I haven't delved much into the library that powers the recognition, but it should be possible to adapted it to other symbols. Alternative, there are also similar libraries for normal handwriting.

How good the results are, depends on how good the dataset is.

@Sonny
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