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MedSpeak adds OCR to decode prescription shorthand from photos

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

MedSpeak, a tool that translates medical prescription shorthand, now lets users snap a photo instead of typing. The update uses Tesseract.js for in-browser OCR and switches to a JSON API. No images are uploaded to the server.

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A practical upgrade that keeps privacy intact, but the tool's utility depends on OCR accuracy with handwritten prescriptions.
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