dOCtoR

Inspiration

From our time in and out of the hospital, one thing we noticed was that paramedics would always give the triage nurses paper forms for them to read over and transcribe. This is an incredibly slow process that may delay a patients assessment. We decided to make an app where you can just take a picture with your phone and it would automatically enter all the information on those forms into a database, ready to be used for any application.

What it does

The user can take a picture using their smartphone, and using the Azure Computer Vision API, dOCtoR uses Optical Character Recognition to extract different data fields and their entry from medical forms.

How I built it

The basis of the app is Microsoft Azure's OCR API which returns a JSON object upon uploading a picture. The JSON is then parsed by an in-house JSON parser which submits the results to an SQLite database.

Challenges I ran into

Learning how to make an android app in 24 hours
Learning java in 24 hours
Dependency issues
Sleep deprivation

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Everything works by itself
The friendships we made

What I learned

Android development sucks
Java sucks
We don't need to implement OCR algorithms if we use APIs

What's next for dOCtoR

Although the parts work independently, we have to put everything together. Some of the implementations need to be refined and we also would like to expand to iOS support.