MedSpeak Update Adds In-Browser OCR to Decode Prescription Labels from Photos

MedSpeak, a tool that translates medical prescription shorthand into plain language, has received an update enabling users to photograph a label instead of typing text manually. The update integrates Tesseract.js, an open-source OCR library, which processes images entirely within the browser so no photo data is sent to a server. The backend was also reworked to use a JSON API instead of traditional form submissions, making results appear instantly without a full page reload. The core decoding logic and lookup tables from the original version remain unchanged. Together, these changes streamline the workflow from snapping a label photo to receiving a readable translation in seconds.