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Shane Higgins
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Does Heidi use OCR to read handwriiten prefilled forms
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Shane Higgins
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Thanks for the question — super relevant if you’re dealing with prefilled forms multiple times a day.
Heidi lets you upload files (PDF, DOC, JPG, PNG), including images of handwritten notes/forms, to give the scribe more context. To make sure we answer what you need: are you asking whether Heidi can
reliably extract handwritten text from a scanned/photo form (OCR/handwriting recognition)
and then auto-fill those fields?
A couple quick questions so we can pass this to the right team:
1) What kind of forms are these (e.g., referrals, intake forms, pathology requests), and are they usually scanned PDFs or phone photos?
2) Is the handwriting typically printed or cursive, and is it mostly in specific fields/boxes?
3) What’s the ideal outcome — auto-populate specific fields, or just make the handwritten content searchable/usable in the note?
If you can share an example screenshot (with any patient info removed), that would help a lot.
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