Getting started

To run this sample code, you must first get a Mathpix OCR API key. This can be done here:

https://accounts.mathpix.com

Then, put your app_id and app_key into .env file (https://github.com/Mathpix/live-math-drawing-demo/blob/master/.env.sample):

export app_id=YOUR_APP_ID
export app_key=YOUR_APP_KEY

Then:

npm install
source .env
npm start

Then, open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

API docs

This demo is build with the following 2 API endpoints:

• getting app tokens which is done on the server side: https://docs.mathpix.com/#using-client-side-app-tokens
• making digital ink requests to the Mathpix OCR API from client side JS: https://docs.mathpix.com/#request-parameters-2