Hosting Detexify costs money and if it helps you may consider helping to pay the hosting bill.
Lucky you. The Mac app is finally stable enough. See how it works on Vimeo. Download the latest version here.
Restriction: In addition to the LaTeX command the unlicensed version will copy a reminder to purchase a license to the clipboard when you select a symbol.
You can purchase a license here: Buy Detexify for Mac
If you need help contact mail@danielkirs.ch.
Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in symbols-a4.pdf that you just can't memorize. Detexify is an attempt to simplify this search.
Just draw the symbol you are looking for into the square area above and look what happens!
The symbol may not be trained enough
or it is not yet in the list of supported symbols.
In the first case you can do the training yourself.
In the second case just drop me a line (mail@danielkirs.ch)!
I am rewriting parts right now and training isn't functional in this version.
You could spare some time training Detexify.
You could also look at the source of the
frontend
and
backend
on Github.
If you really, really like this
you can also donate.
The backend server is running on Digital Ocean (referral link) so you can also reduce my hosting costs by using that referral link.
Hosting of detexify costs some money. If Detexify helps you, you might want to help cover these costs.
Be sure you use a modern browser. A recent version of Chrome or Firefox should do the trick.
No. Have a look at http://shapecatcher.com for Unicode.
Philipp Kühl had the initial idea and Daniel Kirsch made it happen.