MEDVEX

Inspiration

Medical writing is a 8.68 billion dollar industry that could benefit from automation. Research points to over half of medical writing hours being spent copying from a PDF.

What it does

MEDVEX uses Computer Vision to privately and securely automate table entry from PDF files to Word files.

How we built it

Using Python, Tkinter, Camelot, and other libraries.

Challenges we ran into

Detecting tabular data in PDF files is almost as complicated as detecting it in popular image formats like JPEG.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to consistently detect the tabular data and organize it to a table that can be exported to .docx files.

What we learned

Computer vision tasks are difficult with limited processing power, but it's very rewarding to build a pipeline yourself.

What's next for MEDVEX

Built With

• camelot
• python
• tkinter