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From the name itself, PhotoMath allows its users to answer mathematical equations by taking their photos through the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It might sound that this newly developed app might trigger students to cheat and not to learn the ways of solving math problems but its developer already foresee these possible disadvantages. Other than knowing the right answer to the math problems, PhotoMath is also equipped to give the solutions or the step by step ways on how the problems were solved.
Since the technology is still new, PhotoMath is still limited to solving mathematical equations such as arithmetics, fractions, decimal number, linear equations and several functions like logarithms. It is also limited to identifying only typewritten characters and can only solve short mathematical equations due to the OCR red frame. One reviewer commented that the app kept on mistaking the “x” variable as multiplication symbol.
On the brighter note, Microblink continues to develop the app and can be downloaded for free but as of now only I phones and Windows phone can enjoy this application while Android phones users must wait until next year for the app to be available in Play Store.
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