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blaisewang / img2latex-mathpix

Mathpix has changed their billing policy and no longer has free monthly API requests. This repo is now archived and will not receive any updates for the foreseeable future.
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[Feature Request] Snip hotkey to automatically send the OCR request #94

Closed fabiosangregorio closed 4 years ago

fabiosangregorio commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Creating the screenshot, switching to the image2Latex app, pressing enter and switching back to the document takes a bit of time. It would be great if a snip hotkey was added, just like in the main Mathpix app.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great if I could press a hotkey (e.g. alt+shift+s) and a screenshot creator would open, letting me drag the screenshot area just like the default operaing system screenshot taker. Then, the OCR request gets automatically sent, so that after the response I can directly paste the formula in my document, without having to interact with the app directly.

Additional context This already happens in the main mathpix application, and I find it extremely userful and productive.

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blaisewang commented 4 years ago

I have thought about implementing this feature in the past. After some research, I found that Java programs do not support global monitoring of key events. So, this feature won't be implemented unless the whole app was rewritten in a different language.

blaisewang commented 4 years ago

Maybe a keypress listener writes in C/C++ can send the signal to this app. But I am not familiar with these languages.

fabiosangregorio commented 4 years ago

After a bit of research I found https://github.com/kwhat/jnativehook . Could this be useful?

blaisewang commented 4 years ago

Last time I saw this library, it wasn't updated for quite a long time. But I am glad to know this package is maintaining by someone. I will try this one if I have some time.