The new feature will be built into the Google Lens app. He will find the medicine you need according to the photo of the prescription.

what is known

We’re actually talking about a kind of reader, which is will be able to recognize illegible handwriting. The function allows you to both download stock photos from the gallery and take new ones at the moment of use. The system will recognize the records and show the user the medical drugs specified in the prescription.

As the company itself states, development is carried out jointly with pharmacists. This indicates that the program will compare text (such as drug names) with marketed names to find the correct ones.

Google’s India executive demonstrated the feature’s functionality at the conference, but said nothing about the specific terms of its launch. According to him, the company “has a lot of work to do to bring this opportunity to everyone.”

At the moment, it is not known in which languages ​​the technology will work. However, it is likely to launch first in India, the country with the most Google Lens users in the world.