Google aims to translate doctors' handwriting. It's well known that many doctors write prescriptions in a hurry, making it almost impossible for their patients to understand what they're writing. This problem has existed for decades and many technology companies have tried to solve it, but with little success.
Now it's time for Google to try to find a way to translate these difficult texts.
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At its annual conference in India, Google announced that it is working with people from the pharmaceutical industry to solve the problem and translate doctors' handwriting.
This processing will be done through Google Lens, with users having the option to either take a photo of the prescription or upload it from their device.
Once the images are processed, the app will identify the medications mentioned in the notes, a Google executive showed in a demonstration.
While the company said Google Lens is more prevalent in India than any other country, it didn't share a potential launch date for the new feature with its audience.
Google for India, the company's annual event for the South Asian market, showcased dozens of new developments.
The company said it is developing a unified, speech-to-text model for more than 100 Indian languages to help people in the South Asian market navigate the internet.
India is Google's largest market in terms of users, with over half a billion users. But it has also been one of Google's toughest years in the South Asian market, where it has been slapped twice by India's regulator for anti-competitive practices in recent months .
Information source: techcrunch.com
