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Convert API is now 25% faster and more reliable

This client is open source and makes it easier than ever to convert PDFs, documents, and images into JSON, Markdown, DOCX, LaTeX, and more — all directly from your Python applications.

We are excited to announce the launch of the latest version of our document conversion API.

Big news! Starting March 1, 2025, we’re simplifying and lowering prices for our Image API to make it more affordable for all users.

We’re excited to announce a significant discount on our PDF API pricing! Thanks to recent improvements in efficiency, we’ve reduced costs while maintaining the same high-quality performance.

Dramatically improves latency for real-time PDF applications using server-side events.

Previously, PDF pages with rotated content were not handled correctly, causing certain parts of the page to be digitized as image links rather than being properly recognized as content. With the latest update, this issue has been resolved.

We have added support for converting PDFs to DOCX, Markdown, LaTeX and more to the Snipping Tool desktop apps on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

We are excited to introduce Mathpix Console, our new platform designed to manage access to Mathpix's APIs. The platform includes a new dashboard where you can view billing and usage for all of your organizations.

All of the latest features in Snip including support for bulk file uploads, faster processing for large PDF files, customizable options for Note exporting, and more.

A recent software update brings initial support for source code recognition from images and PDFs. Search features have also been optimized to support code snippets.

You can now convert images to InChI, InChIKey, and MOL formats. We’ve also improved how we return all chemical formats including SMILES by preserving the orientation of the rendered molecule.

We're excited to announce a price reduction for extra Snip and PDF usage, making it more affordable than ever. We also added a Home page and made a bunch of updates to the Snips tab, such as full-page view, bulk selection, and more export options.

We're thrilled to announce that our Snip web app is now available to use in French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and more! In this tutorial, learn how to choose your Language & Region setting within the editor.

Mathpix Snip can simplify the process of converting math into digital formats. Learn how to boost your Canvas LMS workflow, making math more accessible and interactive for teachers and students.

Introducing new features in Mathpix Snip Apps: organize your documents with new Files tab and folders, export tables as CSV files for data analysis, convert text into Snips with a few clicks.

We're excited to announce a price reduction for our PDF API, making it more affordable for processing large volumes of PDF documents. Additionally, we now offer plain Markdown outputs in our API, providing better compatibility with modern LLMs, and have made improvements to PDF processing speed and chemical diagram recognition.

Learn about Mathpix's latest update to the algorithm, which now recognizes complex chemical structures that were previously challenging.

Our image conversion tools allow to capture and convert printed and handwritten text, equations, tables, diagrams into LaTeX code for use in your favorite editors. In this blog post, learn about all the possible ways of creating a Snip using the Mathpix Snip app.

We now support a new advanced algorithm for parsing large tables. We also made Asciimath fixes and improved formatting and PDF processing.

In this guide, we show how to use LaTeX in Google Docs and Power Point with maximum efficiency. The combination of Mathpix and special extensions can greatly facilitate the creation of documents and presentations with math and tables.

You can now copy text and math directly from an opened PDF in the Snip web app just by hovering over it. You can also click and drag to highlight many lines to copy the content to your clipboard.

A new API option enables spell check for English handwriting recognition, resulting in a significant accuracy improvement when converting messy handwritten English to text. This feature is also live in Snip.

We are excited to announce the Mathpix Snip Chrome extension! With one click, you can import a PDF into your collection. We have also added more PDF usage to the Pro plan so you can use Snip to create your smart research PDF repository.

Mathpix Snip now supports document editing, document search, document exporting, PDF creation, and PDF search on mobile devices. This makes Snip into a full-featured digital notebook for researchers and STEM professionals. We have also added support for new Snip export formats previously only supported in the desktop apps.

Creating accessible documents for low-vision and blind students has a lot of rules to remember and requires some painstaking work if you don’t use Snip, which can instantly convert printed and handwritten PDFs to accessible files.

Make scientific PDFs accessible with Snip. It allows your screen reader to read aloud even complex math symbols and equations in your PDF.

In addition to the accessibility features we already support in our apps, like digitizing equations for accessible Word documents and your LMS, we have made new improvements to our Snip web app for creating and consuming accessible STEM content.

Create an editable, searchable, and exportable PDF repository with Snip and view your PDFs on any device. We've also added all Snip export formats to our web app and the ability to copy single equations from a Note or rendered PDF.

Converting images and PDFs with Japanese was never so easy! Using our simple OCR tool you can digitize your materials blazingly fast. Just take a screenshot of an image and instantly get your editable result. You can also upload PDFs in Japanese and convert them to LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Overleaf, and more.

Easily convert printed and handwritten images with Hindi characters using our simple OCR-powered tool. Just take a screenshot of an image and instantly get your editable result. You can also upload PDFs with Hindi and convert them to Word, LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Overleaf, and more.

Today we announce the winners of our latest Spectra Writing Competition. Thanks to all who participated! Our next competition is open for submissions and ends on January 1st, 2023.

Convert Cyrillic text and math with our simple OCR-powered tool. Just take a screenshot of an image and instantly get your editable result. You can also upload PDFs in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and convert them to LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Overleaf, and more.

Easily extract traditional and simplified Chinese from images. Just take a screenshot and instantly get your result in LaTeX, MathML, and more. You can also convert whole Chinese PDFs to editable formats like LaTeX and DOCX.

Digitize printed and handwritten chemical diagrams to SMILES code with our highly accurate image to structure converter.

How to convert images of math, text, and tables to LaTeX with our simple OCR-powered app.

Getting your Mac set up to edit LaTeX documents can sometimes be confusing. Follow this simple step-by-step guide and start editing .tex files on your Mac in no time!

We've added a new AWS region in Frankfurt to provide lower latencies for our EU-based customers. You can also now use app-tokens and try our new digital ink API!

No need to draw chemical structures by yourself! Easily convert images to ChemDraw with Mathpix Snip just by taking a photo or screenshot.

Submit to the Spectra scientific writing competition and get six months of Mathpix Pro for Free. We have updated the submission deadline to May 1, 2022.

Why re-type complex spreadsheet data manually when you can immediately convert a table from PDF to TSV with Mathpix Snip? Just imagine how much time you can save using our simple, but highly accurate OCR-powered app!

Converting tabular data has never been so easy! Just take a screenshot of your table and instantly get it in LaTeX tabular format. Save tons of time while working on STEM documents using our highly accurate OCR-powered Table Generator.

We've made significant improvements to our handwriting recognition. We've also fixed bugs in Snip web app and are extending the deadline of the Spectra review paper competition by two weeks.

Use Mathpix’s table generator tool for easy pasting Markdown tables into editors. Forget about manually retyping tabular data and significantly boost your productivity!

Need to convert your PDF to HTML? Try our AI-powered PDF to HTML conversion tool and get your results in just a few seconds.

Today, we’re announcing our second Spectra writing competition, which will award $10K to top papers in all major STEM fields across two categories: research-review papers and tutorials.

Use Mathpix's simple AI-powered PDF conversion tool to convert your PDF to LaTeX and export to Overleaf.

Need to convert your PDF to Word? Converting PDFs has never been simpler than with Mathpix’s AI-powered PDF to Word conversion.

You can now draw equations or diagrams directly in your desktop app using your trackpad, an external pen tablet, or a touchscreen laptop.

Take a photo of your chemistry notes through the Snip mobile app, sync to desktop, then paste the SMILES into apps like ChemDraw. Search for chemical diagrams.

Convert images of tables to Markdown instantly.

We are now using AppImage instead of Snap to distribute our Linux app, a much better solution for users of all Linux distros.

We have made significant upgrades to the performance of the Windows apps, including bug fixes and stability improvements.

You can now process entire PDFs using Mathpix's OCR technology and get LaTeX, DOCX, Markdown, or HTML results via Snip or the API. To support this feature we have made some changes to our pricing that will only affect the heaviest 1% of Snip users. API customers can access this feature through the v3/pdf endpoint.

You can now use Snip seamlessly with other apps on your iPad with support for Multitasking.

We have recently added support for printed chemical diagram OCR, as well as visual chemical diagram search of the PubChem database.

After reviewing some great submissions, we are so pleased to announce the 1st batch of Spectra ML review paper winners!

To celebrate the launch of our new ML research platform, Spectra, we are holding a review paper competition this month!

We've added added new drawing-related features and improved the overall usability of the mobile apps, especially for tablet users.

Our new Search tab allows you to go from picture to web search results in seconds. Search equations on Wikipedia, Math Stack Exchange, and more.

New features in Snip web app allow teachers to create interactive assignments for their remote learning students.

The new Solver tab in Snip desktop is like a graphing calculator for advanced math students.

Mathpix now has tab and row memory to automatically preserve format whenever you copy and paste. Additional features: Improved navigation from the keyboard and more.

Mathpix Snip is more compatible with Microsoft Word than ever with a new MathML format enabling better multiline equations, summations, and integrals in Word.

Snip image export settings now include presets for more customization and increased compatibility with Github, Google Docs/Slides, Microsoft Office, Typora.

Using Snip you can convert tables in PDFs into a CSV file in less than 30 seconds. Major productivity boost.

In light of recent events, we doubled the value of our Snip Free plan for educational users by increasing the Free limit to 20 Snips per month.

Stop re-typing tabular data! Mathpix Snip quickly converts screenshots of PDF tables into text that can be pasted into Excel, Sheets, and other spreadsheets.

Skip the difficult to use equation editor in Word and instead go directly from screenshot to formatted equation in your document. In this article, you will find the simple steps for how to insert an equation into a Microsoft Word document using Snip.

Mathpix's drawing mode allows you to draw equations, text, and tables with a finger or stylus, then digitize them for MS Word, LaTeX, and other formats.

Mathpix now supports OCR to table, digitizing images of tables to return LaTeX. tabular environment code for easy pasting into text editors.

Snipping Tool to text recognition: Snip 2.0 allows Snips of paragraphs and full pages with OCR, as well as other customizations and improvements.

MathpixOCR gets a big boost in accuracy and robustness on text heavy images with new API endpoint v3/text.

Snip web app released as lightweight, single user, note taking app for math, science, and engineering.

You can now use Snip on your iOS or Android devices. Sync your results between mobile and desktop instantly, via your Mathpix account.

Syncing, improved handwriting recognition, image URLs, better editing and navigation, and more!

We now offer a solution for converting any math image into LaTeX for our Windows users.

Mathpix now reads a lot more than just math.