TITLE: OCR for handwritten mathematics
QUESTION [24 upvotes]: I am in the process of scanning a large collection of handwritten notes.  They consist of diagrams and formulae with a relatively small proportion of actual words.  Of course it would be hopeless to get an OCR program to digest the diagrams or formulae, but it would be useful if I could get one to find and transcribe enough of the words to build an index.  Has anyone tried this kind of thing?

REPLY [9 votes]: To supplement Bob Terrell's post, here is an example from InftyReader.
Snippet from an input image, scanned at 600dpi:
  
Snippet from output of the corresponding LaTeX produced by InftyReader:
  
It's not perfect—$\partial z \partial \bar{z}$ becomes $\partial z k$—but it's pretty impressive!