PhotoMath App Scans And Calculates Equations With Your Phone’s Camera

Launched last week, PhotoMath is an app designed to allow users to solve mathematical equations by pointing their phone’s camera at a textbook.

The app uses text recognition technology to solve simple math equations.It also provides step-by-step instructions explaining how it got to the answer.

PhotoMath can solve arithmetic expressions, fractions and decimals, powers and roots, and simple linear equations.

While it’s easy to see how students could take advantage of the app during tests, MicroBlink, the Croatian company that created PhotoMath, sees many positive uses for its creation.

MicroBlink’s CEO Damir Sabol told Mashable they see the technology being used in “many places where mobile apps need to be connected to the real world through text recognition.”

“We’ve had a million visits to our website and more than 110,000 downloads yesterday, and the traffic seems to be growing. As far as financing goes, we haven’t taken any outside investments yet, but we’re looking at that possibility as well,” he says.

MicroBlink has previously launched PhotoPay, an app that lets users pay bills simply by scanning them through a phone’s camera.

PhotoMath is available for iOS and Windows Phone devices, and will be coming to Android devices in early 2015.

Source: mashable.com, ubergizmo.com