A significant number of doctors write prescriptions in a hurry, making it almost impossible for their patients to understand what they scribble. This problem has existed for decades, and many tech companies have tried to solve it with little or no success.
Now Google is trying to translate those cryptic texts.
The search giant announced at its annual conference in India on Monday that it is working with pharmacists to find the handwriting of doctors.
The feature will be rolled out to Google Lens, allowing users to take a picture of a prescription or upload a photo from the photo library.
Once the image is processed, the app will detect the drugs mentioned in the note, a Google executive presented during a demonstration.
A Google executive in India details the company’s new AI features. (Image credit: Google)
The company did not immediately share when it plans to release the new capability to the public. Google says India has the highest number of Google Lens users in the world.
Google for India is the company’s annual event in the South Asian market, where it showcases dozens of new developments. The company also said it is working on a single, unified model to include over 100 Indian languages for both voice and text to support the internet journey of the next millions of individuals in the market. South Asia.
India is a key market for Google with more than half a billion users in the country. But it has also been one of the toughest years for Google in the South Asian market, where it has been sanctioned twice by India’s antitrust authority in recent months.
