If you’re taking a mathematics course at the high school level or below (or you’re being presented with some equations you’ve long forgotten how to do…), at one time or another you’ve probably come across one of those “gotcha” math problem that you just cannot solve. It can also be especially frustrating when you can’t figure out how to type it into Wolfram|Alpha or Google search correctly.
Fret not, text recognition start-up, Microblink, maker of the popular PhotoMath app on Apple and Windows smartphones, has finally released the app onto the Play Store. This app will use your smartphone’s camera to analyze a math equation and give you the answer to it, but more importantly than that (or it should be), it’ll walk you through on how to solve the problem.
In an interface similar to what you can find with Google Goggles, PhotoMath scans the image fed to it from your camera and identifies math equations. The only caveat at the moment is that the equation must be typed, but Microblink has promised that support for handwritten equations will be coming in the future.
The app is free, so if you’re tired of digging through Google search results and begging people on Yahoo Answers, you might give PhotoMath a shot! See below for a gallery of screenshots plus a video, as well as a link to the app’s Play Store page.
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