Inspiration
ReMedical began as an idea due to personal issues regarding consistently maintaining medication. However, most medication apps require manual input, which we found to be a hindrance to the user experience.
What it does
Therefore, we decided to create our own application that accepts user text input and images of medicine labels, automatically read through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques.
How we built it
We built the website using HTML/CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript. We explored the OCR techniques with the Python library Tesseract.
Challenges we ran into
However, we also faced challenges such as current technology being inadequate for our purposes (ex. OCR) and other obligations past the hackathon.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're very proud that we were able to create a visually appealing dashboard and explore a computer vision technique with less than 36 hours.
What we learned
Through extensive research, we were able to learn new skills in web development, computer vision, and UI/UX designing, which will no doubt be helpful to us in our future careers.
What's next for ReMedical
In the end, developing ReMedical served as a great learning experience that helped solidify our fundamentals in coding and introduced us to topics to explore in the future potentially. We hope to one day revisit this project to add more features and fully implement the aforementioned OCR techniques into our website dashboard.
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