LATEX Extractor

[boyen-cell]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Similar to Text Extractor, but it would read in a LATEX equation and paste the respective LATEX into clipboard

Example:
Website shows
$MRS=\frac{\alpha }{1-\alpha }(\frac{x_2}{x_1}{)}^{1-r}$

Then eg WIN+SHIFT+L opens the screenshot UI, user creates a rectangle around the equation and
"$MRS={\alpha \over {1-\alpha}} ({x_2 \over x_1})^{1-r}$" gets pasted into the clipboard

Scenario when this would be used?

When needing to copy already rendered LATEX.

Supporting information

No response

[TheJoeFin]

I would love to enable this, but building our own models is beyond the scope of this project. If you can suggest an alternative then this will remain open, but otherwise I will close this as Not Planned. /needinfo

[boyen-cell]

I've found this online service that recognizes hand-written formulas really well
https://webdemo.myscript.com/

For already rendered LaTeX I found the following github project:
https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR
However, I have no idea at all whether it would be easy to merge eg the lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR project with PowerToys -- sorry if this actually seems completely infeasible.

(https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116863/image-equation-to-tex here are other github projects about LaTeX OCR as well)

[TheJoeFin]

Unfortunately, all of those tools are either

1. Python based with no C# support
2. Send data to the cloud for process (no go)

Again, I would love to add this feature, but today the available models for this application just don't fit. I am going to close this issue because of these reasons, but if a C# compatible, on device model becomes freely available please reopen.