How well does Dose Card read a prescription?
On 17 test prescriptions listing 72 medicines, Dose Card found all 72 and read 287 of 288 details right. It added no medicines that weren't on the paper.
| Detail on each medicine | Read right |
|---|---|
| Found on the paper | 72 of 72 |
| How much | 72 of 72 |
| Unit | 72 of 72 |
| When | 71 of 72 |
| Before or after food | 72 of 72 |
| Every detail right | 71 of 72 |
| Medicines made up | 0 |
What it got wrong
TAB. FUROSEMIDE 40 MG (rx-04): The paper says “BD (8 AM, 4 PM)”. Dose Card put the 4 PM dose under Evening; our answer counts 4 PM as Afternoon. It wasn't marked Please check, which is why every row has to be checked against the paper.
Our own mistake (rx-17): Corrected after the first run: सुबह-शाम literally means morning and evening, which is what the reader gave; the original answer key said morning and night.
What this does and doesn't show
- The prescriptions are fictional and were drawn on a computer with handwriting typefaces, tilted and blurred to look like phone photos. Real doctors' handwriting is messier, so treat these numbers as a best case.
- They cover the shorthand Indian prescriptions use (1-0-1, ½-0-½, OD, BD, TDS, QID, HS, SOS, AC, PC), syrups in ml, eye drops, inhaler puffs, sachets, half tablets, weekly doses, a typed discharge summary, instructions in Hindi, an elaborate script and a very blurry photo.
- It measures reading only. Dose Card never checks doses or interactions, and every card says to confirm with a doctor or pharmacist.
Every test prescription
rx-01: Neat handwriting
7 of 7 medicines fully right
rx-02: Rounded handwriting
5 of 5 medicines fully right
rx-03: Loose handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-04: Typed hospital printout
4 of 5 medicines fully right
rx-05: Felt-pen handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-06: Neat handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-07: Rounded handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-08: Loose handwriting
3 of 3 medicines fully right
rx-09: Felt-pen handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-10: Neat handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-11: Typed hospital printout
5 of 5 medicines fully right
rx-12: Rounded handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-13: Loose handwriting
3 of 3 medicines fully right
rx-14: Felt-pen handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-15: Elaborate script handwriting
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-16: Very blurry, low-contrast photo
4 of 4 medicines fully right
rx-17: Instructions written in Hindi
4 of 4 medicines fully right
How it was run
Each image went once through the same reader the app uses (gemini-3-flash-preview and gemini-3.5-flash, on 24 October 2026), and every medicine was compared with what a careful pharmacist would read. The prescriptions, answers and raw readings are in the repository: evals/prescriptions.json, evals/raw/. Re-run with pnpm render-evals and pnpm eval.