healthcare ocr pwa

Instrumentskanner

Mobile PWA used daily by sterile supply staff to find instrument storage locations via camera OCR, Danish voice input, or part-number lookup. No personal T-DOC login required.

Instrumentskanner screenshot

Before this app, finding where an instrument belonged meant booting up a PC, logging into T-DOC, searching each part number, and writing the location on a paper scrap. Instrumentskanner replaces that workflow with a 10-second lookup on a phone, and it’s been in daily use by colleagues on the floor since launch.

Why I built it

Staff need to locate instruments constantly, but T-DOC lives on desktop PCs and requires a personal login. Temporary staff often do not have access at all. Instrumentskanner gives staff the same lookup answer from a phone or iPad, behind a shared app password that keeps the OCR API protected.

How it works

Point the camera at an instrument label and OCR reads the part number, matches it against the local parts database, and returns the storage location. No label handy? Use Danish voice input, or type a partial number and get exact, prefix, substring, or fuzzy-matched suggestions.

Search history is saved locally for quick re-lookups and can be sorted by recency, location, or alphabetically, deleted entry-by-entry, or cleared entirely. If a location is wrong, staff can submit a correction note directly from the result.

The frontend is a mobile-first PWA that installs on iOS and Android without an app store. The parts database, recent history, and app shell are cached for fast repeat lookups, while camera OCR runs through Netlify Functions with OpenRouter as the primary provider and an optional fallback provider.