Google will soon translate your doctor’s terrible handwriting

Google is growing an AI mannequin that may decipher difficult-to-read handwriting, with a deal with notes and prescriptions written by docs. The search large introduced throughout its annual convention in India on Monday that it was working with pharmacists to create a software in Google Lens that may decode messily written medical notes (through TechCrunch).

Google showcased the characteristic throughout the occasion, demonstrating its functionality to particularly detect medicines in a handwritten prescription. There’s no element but on when the brand new textual content deciphering characteristic is predicted to launch, solely that “a lot work nonetheless stays to be performed earlier than this technique is prepared for the true world.”

Google Lens is an AI-powered multipurpose object recognition software that can be utilized to detect objects (reminiscent of merchandise, vegetation, or animal species) and translate languages. The Google Len app can already be used to digitally transcribe handwritten notes, although in our personal exams the characteristic was depending on how legible stated handwriting is. Harried docs are identified for having horrible handwriting.