sithamet / mathpix-ocr-demo

Demo for using MathPix OCR API.

README

This repo contains code to extract math equations from images using Mathpix API and generate explanations for the steps using OpenAI API.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• Pip
• Virtualenv (optional)

Installation

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/username/repo-name.git

2. (Optional) Create and activate a virtual environment:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows, use `venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Create a .env file with your API keys:

MATHPIX_APP_ID=YOUR_APP_ID
MATHPIX_APP_KEY=YOUR_APP_KEY

If you want immediately test if GPT understands the output, add

OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

5. Run the code:

python main.py

This will process all images in the input folder and save the responses in the output and answers folders.

To test in OpenAI test mode, set openai_test_mode = True in main.py . This will send requests to OpenAI's test API endpoint.