Smartphone solve any equation

The free app is useful PhotoMath many students. When you point the camera at the equation of the program recognizes mathematical symbols in the formula performs calculations - and gives the correct answer. The program is designed for iOS and Windows Phone, and a version for Android will be released in early 2015.

"Reading" characters by using the module OCR, and to solve the equations using its own technology. Although, in principle, one could use APIs site Wolfram Alpha , which is also a good idea solves this equation.

The developers of the company Microblink say that the program was not created for cheating, and in helping students. This video shows that it gives not only the final result, but also demonstrates the steps in the solution of the equation "human style".

Successfully recognized arithmetic expressions, fractions, roots signs varying degrees, the simple linear equation.

True, the first users are complaining that the program does not always work as expected, bad recognizes characters and gives wrong answers.