Inspiration

We were inspired from the lack of mobile apps that work with prescription drugs. Some people may not be able to read labels because of visual impairment or illiteracy, remember clearly whether or not to take their drugs.

What it does

ReadRx transcribes drugs and works with integrating the prescription drugs into a regular part of people's lives. It uses the camera tool to parse drug labels then adds it to a user profile, and outputs what schedule they should be taken on. Using this information, it also can translate it to foreign languages if the user is illiterate, or text-to-speech if the user is visually impaired. There is also the option to lookup extra information, such as side effects or alternative names.

How we built it

This was built with Python Flask to integrate Python with HTML/CSS/JS, and uses OpenCV and Mediapipe to take live video feed and turn it into a string. The string is then parsed with natural language processing in order to output a schedule that is user-friendly.

Challenges we ran into

Integrating the back-end and front-end, some issues with Git, and bugs in code

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First hackathon!!!

What we learned

Figma, Twilio, and teamwork.

What's next for ReadRx

Development of a mobile version or including an AI pharmacist to help with patients' needs.

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