Intelligent Prescription Reader: A Smart Health Tracking Application

Health and Medication are equally important for every section of society, be it rich or poor, educated, or uneducated. But, Doctors' prescriptions are not easy to use for many. The challenge is to automatically read the data from advice slips or prescriptions and to make it explanatory to all sections of people. With advancements of computers, smartphones, etc., and their usage by all sections of society, designing applications for reading unstructured data and presenting it to consumers in a structured and useful way is a great benefit to society at large. The information are not only presented to consumers but also alarming consumers about their medications and body needs in time. In this article, various methods to read data in unstructured prescriptions and to convert them to a structured form were discussed. Also, the designing and implementation of an application that reminds the user to take their medication in time, as prescribed by the doctor were discussed.