IDEAL Group President, Steve Jacobs, Named “Champion of Change” by Obama Administration

WASHINGTON, DC – Monday, May 7th, the White House will, today, honor 14 individuals as Champions of Change for leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities in education and employment. “STEM is vital to America’s future in education and employment, so equal access for people with disabilities is imperative, [...]

NASA’s Math Description Engine (MDE)

A BIG Thank You to Dr. Robert Shelton (PI), Stephanie Smith, Dan Dexter, Dat Truong and Terry Hodgson from the  the NASA Learning Technologies Project. Click this link to access Terry Hodgson’s implementation of the MDE for this website! About MDE: The Math Description Engine Software Development Kit can be used by software developers to make [...]

Download Fully-Functional Demos of InftyReader/ChattyInfty (Updated: April 30, 2012)

Note: If you plan to use the “One Year” version of InftyReader/ChattyInfty you must download the proper demo. If you download the standard version of InftyReader/ChattyInfty and try activating the software with a “One Year” version license… it will not work! Standard Versions of InftyReader and ChattyInfty: InftyReader Standard Version V2.9.1.1 (50 MB File) New [...]

About InftyReader, ChattyInfty and InftyEditor

Reference Documents: InftyReader: An OCR System for Math Documents (115 KB Word Document) Important InftyReader User Guidelines (243 KB Word document) About InftyReader: InftyReader is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates image-based scientific documents (including math symbols) into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML.  InftyReader can recognize tables including math expressions in the [...]

Examples of Recognition Results by InftyReader

Note 1: All of the black and white (binary) images below were scanned at 600 DPI. Note 2: It took InftyReader only three (3) minutes to scan, OCR and convert all 12 PNG images below into MathML files. If your office of disability services is manually creating MAthML files from printed textbooks InftyReader can save [...]

Papers from the International Workshop on “Digitization and E-Inclusion in Mathematics and Science 2012″

Problems in Producing Japanese DAISY Mathematical Content and a Solution for Them Katsuhito Yamaguchi Junior College Funabashi Campus, Nihon University 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8501, Japan eugene@gaea.jcn.nihon-u.ac.jp Masakazu Suzuki Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT) 2-1-22 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0001, Japan Scientific eBooks for All: EPUB3 and DAISY4 Mayu Hamada ATDO (Assistive Technology [...]

MathFlow 2.0 Extends MathML 3 Support, Adds Geometry Enhancements

By Jerry Bard Educational software developer Design Science has released a major upgrade to its cross-platform MathFlow product line. MathFlow 2.0, released late last week, is “a major step in the evolution of our industry-leading MathML component suite,” Design Science CEO Paul Topping said in a news release. MathML is a component of the XML [...]