Mathpix (Snip)

Mathpix Snip addresses a narrow but persistent OCR problem: turning images of mathematical notation, and full scientific documents, into editable formats. A user snips an equation on screen and receives LaTeX, MathML, Markdown, DOCX, or HTML, with support extending to chemical structures, tables, handwriting, and complete PDF conversion. The product line spans desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux, mobile apps, a web app, a Chrome extension, and developer-facing Convert and Files APIs used by AI and ML teams for STEM document processing. The company reports billions of pages and images processed for thousands of organizations, including universities and research labs. It is a commercial, closed-source service with a free tier and paid plans metered by usage. Students transcribing lecture notes, researchers moving equations into papers, and publishers digitizing archives make up the typical audience, along with teams building datasets from scientific PDFs.