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From Pixels to Prescriptions: Engineering OCR Pipelines for Medical Report Simplification Using MongoDB

DEV Community·Kotha Deepak Reddy·7 months ago
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Introduction

So here's the thing — when We started working on MediSimplify , a project that takes medical reports and converts them into patient-friendly language, We thought the hard part would be the NLP simplification. Turns out, just getting the text out of the document was already a mini-nightmare.

Medical reports come as everything: clean PDFs, scanned images, ancient faxed documents that someone scanned and emailed. OCR tools are finicky. Tesseract might not be installed on the deployment machine. A "PDF" might be a text-selectable document or a rasterized scan — and you can't tell which until you open it.…

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