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| Google now supports reading and translating doctors bad handwriting in Lens |
Google announced Monday at a special event in India that it is working with pharmacists to understand the handwriting of doctors' prescriptions.
Many doctors write prescriptions quickly, making it nearly impossible for their patients to understand what they are writing. This problem has been around for decades, and many tech companies have tried to solve it, with little success. And now the American tech giant is working on translating these incomprehensible texts.
Google said it is launching the feature in its Google Lens service, which will allow users to take a photo of a recipe or upload a photo from their photo library. After processing the images, the application recognizes and highlights the medicines mentioned in the prescription.
"It will be an assistive technology that digitizes handwritten medical documents by increasing the number of people who process them, like a decision."
Google has not said when the new features will be released to the public, but India has the highest number of Google Lens users in the world. Note that Google for India, the company's annual event in the South Asian country, has showcased dozens of new developments.
The company also said that it is developing a unified model for covering voice and text in more than 100 Indian languages to empower millions of new internet users in India.
India is an important market for Google with more than 500 million users in the country. But it has also been one of the toughest years for Google in the South Asian market, as it has been fined twice by India's antitrust authority in recent months.