Google can now learn your physician’s unhealthy handwriting

Numerous docs write drugs prescriptions in haste, making it almost unimaginable for his or her sufferers to know what they scribbled. This drawback has been round for many years and lots of tech companies have attempted to solve it with little to no success.

Now Google is having a go at translating these unfathomable texts. The search large introduced at its annual convention in India Monday that it’s working with pharmacists to discover methods to decipher the handwriting of docs.

The function, at the moment a analysis prototype and never prepared for the general public but, permits customers to both take an image of the prescription or add one from the photograph library. As soon as the picture is processed, the app detects and highlights the medicines talked about within the notice, a Google government demonstrated.

“This may act as an assistive expertise for digitizing handwritten medical paperwork by augmenting the people within the loop corresponding to pharmacists, nevertheless no determination might be made solely based mostly on the output offered by this expertise,” the corporate stated in a press release.

Google for India is the corporate’s annual occasion within the South Asian market, the place it showcases dozens of recent developments. The corporate additionally stated it’s engaged on a single, unified mannequin to cowl greater than 100 Indian languages for each speech and textual content to empower the web journey of the following hundreds of thousands of people within the South Asian market.

India is a key marketplace for Google, which has amassed over half a billion customers within the nation. However it’s additionally been one of many hardest years for Google within the South Asian market, the place it has been slapped twice by India’s antitrust regulator in latest months.

The story was up to date to notice that the function is in analysis prototype and the corporate hasn’t dedicated to launching it but.