Google for India 2022 : Reading Doctor’s Prescriptions with Multisearch for Indian Launguages and Many More

Google introduce a new features at the eighth Google for India event, including its efforts to digitise doctor’s prescriptions and expanding its search functionality. Google’s new Multisearch feature lets users take pictures and screenshots and add text to their queries.

Also Google showcase the ‘Search in video‘ feature that adds the ability to search within videos via the Search app on phones.

Google also announce support for accessing Digilocker documents securely via the Files by Google app on Android.

At Google for India 2022, Google announce an AI and machine learning model that can read handwritten prescriptions.

Medical prescriptions are infamously hard to read and often require pharmacists to make sense of their contents.

In Google’s blog post explaining the feature, Google mention that the technology will be assistive in nature and will help pharmacists to digitising handwritten medical documents.

Google’s tool will identity and even highlight medicines present in the prescription.

You will be able to take pictures of a prescription and and identify medical information.

Google adds that no decision would be made on the sole basis of the results provide by this technology.

This feature is currently under development.

Google also introduce a Multisearch feature that expands the search engine’s visual search capabilities.

As per the Google blog detailing the feature, Multisearch will users use images and text together in their search queries.

To use this feature, you can open the Google app camera, take a picture (or use a screenshot), and add text to their queries, “just as you would naturally point at something and ask about it,” as Google puts it.

This feature is currently available in India in English and will extend to other Indian languages in 2023, starting with Hindi.

Google has also announce support for accessing authentic digital documents easily on Android, via Digilocker.

From now, users can access their digital documents on Digilocker via the Files by Google App on Android.

This feature was develop in partnership with the National eGovernment Division (NeGD), as per Google.

Google also showcase a search within video feature at the event, tweeting about the video search function.

This feature adds a ‘search in video‘ button to all video-based results of a Google search query.

Clicking or tapping that button will let users find precisely what they are looking for inside the video and skipping ahead to the relevant part.