MediPic: A mobile application for medical prescriptions

Abstract

Misinterpreted drug names in medical prescriptions cause severe and lethal effects to patients. This is caused by either illegible handwriting or inability of pharmacists to recognize medicine names in medical prescription. This study resolves the problems in medical prescriptions through MediPic, an Android application that uses optical character recognition to partially scan handwritten medicine names and return readable digital text. This mobile application used Tesseract as the optical character recognition library, and Repres to match the partial string with the drug name. With MediPic, cases of misinterpretation of medicine names can be decreased. This will help pharmacists mininize their doubts in selling the wrong medicine to patients. This will also be handful to the patients because it will provide a way to know more about the medicine they are about to take.