Google will soon translate your doctor’s terrible handwriting
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#67021)
Google is working with pharmacists to create a tool that can decipher the handwriting of doctors, detecting medications mentioned in otherwise hard-to-read prescriptions. | Image: Google Google is developing an AI model that can decipher difficult-to-read handwriting, with a focus on notes and prescriptions written by doctors. The search giant announced during its annual conference in India on Monday that it was working with pharmacists to create a tool in Google Lens that can decode messily written medical notes (via TechCrunch).
Google showcased the feature during the event, demonstrating its capability to specifically detect medicines in a handwritten prescription. There's no detail yet on when the new text deciphering feature is expected to launch, only that much work still remains to be done before this system is ready for the real world."
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