Salute

Prescription translator

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Inspiration

One of our teammates told us a story about an old Hispanic woman who unfortunately took 11 pills after mistaking "once (1) a day" to "Once (11 in Spanish) a day". We decided to create an app who would help both English speakers and non-English speakers understand prescription descriptions (or any text block) in any language.

What it does

Takes a prescription's instructions and translates them into Spanish (or any other language). Once the app starts, you have the option to detect and translate text. After clicking the button, your phone's camera interface will open, allowing you to tap on the text written on your object.

How we built it

We used Android-studio and Google API's along with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for the UI design.

Challenges we ran into

Android Studio issues and old documentation. Android studio has a lot of deprecation errors which hindered our progress.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the app to work and still have hacking time left over.

What we learned

How to use APIs and working with android studio.

What's next for Salute

Better features including multiple language translations and detection of non-romanized characters.

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