REVIEW OF PHOTOMATH APP

Have you ever encountered problems while solving equations of Mathematics and find it boring, huh? Well this isn’t going to last forever because technology now a days is making things easier and guess what the sharp team behind MicroBlink, the impressive mobile photo-recognition software engine, is now making it possible for you to do your algebra homework with your phone’s camera, an app known as “PhotoMath”. This in fact is a revolution in image processing and photo-recognition fields like never witnessed before.

This app was introduced in Tech Crunch and quickly became popular all over the world because of its innovation. So far this app has been introduced to the Windows and iOS platforms and its Android version is expected to be developed soon.

So the question arises, how this app actually works? This app uses the phone camera of the smartphone and scans the equation. This scanning is done in specific bounds which can be extended.

As it scans the equation, it instantly displays the solution of the equation or we can say that it instantly returns the value of “x”. There is another interesting part as well. This app not only gives the value of “x” but also shows each and every step to solve the particular equation.

        

This app has certain limitations as well. This app can only solve the linear equation in one variable i.e. “x”. And the equations with two variables “x” and “y” can’t be solved with it. Another limitation of this app is that it only scans the printed equation from books and PC, no hand written equations could be solved using PhotoMath so far. Sometimes this app shows some glitches as well and doesn’t scan the equation properly and takes time.

Still this app needs some improvements and it’s a great step forward in the field of image processing and Photo recognition. And imagine as this app improves further and further it will revolutionize the world.
So for the time being “LET ME TAKE A MATHIE :D”.

BY: 

Umer Ahmad Mehtab

Vice Chair Editorial Board 

 ACM SEECS Chapter