Installing LaTeX-OCR On Osx

11 May, 2024

LaTeX-OCR is a library for converting images to LATEX code. I recently had to reinstall it and ran into some issues. I’m documenting them here so it can help someone else.

Install conda brew install miniconda
Install conda to start with your shell conda init
Activate a new conda environment: conda create -n latexocr python=3.11. If
Install with right qt version pip install qt=6.6.3 "pix2tex[gui]"

Thanks to this post for fixing issue with numpy installation.

I also added this fish helper function to start with a single command: latexocr

function latexocr
    conda_init
    conda activate latexocr
    /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/latexocr/bin/latexocr
end

function conda_init
    if test -f /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/conda
        eval /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin/conda "shell.fish" "hook" $argv | source
    else
        if test -f "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish"
            . "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish"
        else
            set -x PATH "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/bin" $PATH
        end
    end
end