Front-desk staff at small clinics waste 30+ hours a week retyping handwritten intake forms into the EHR. NurseOCR turns a photo of any form into a clean Word document in 4 seconds. $1,500/month flat. Unlimited forms.
Try free on 5 of your forms See how it worksBuilt by an LVN nurse, not a startup bro. I work at a clinic in Los Angeles and watched the front-desk team retype the same intake forms for years. Built this on the side because nobody else did. Now used by clinic staff (not just demoed). — Aidar Shigabutdinov, LVN, license VN759133
10 patients per day × 5 minutes per intake form retyped = 250 minutes daily. That's a paralegal salary going to data entry.
One full FTE just for data entry that nobody finds satisfying. Burnout, errors, turnover.
One wrong digit on insurance ID, one missed allergy, one wrong DOB. Claim denials, compliance risk.
Front desk is hired to handle patients. Pulling them off live work to retype forms wastes the wrong hours.
No new EHR plugin. No clinic-wide rollout. Just photo in, .docx out.
Front-desk staff takes a photo of the intake form on the clinic phone or tablet. Sends to the NurseOCR Telegram bot or uploads via web.
~5 secondsClaude Vision + Llama 3.2 Vision dual-model OCR with cross-validation. Tables, sections, checkboxes — preserved.
~4 secondsReply with structured Word document. Copy-paste into your EHR field-by-field. Or paste the whole structured block at once.
~10 secondsFor a clinic doing 100-300 intake forms per month:
| Method | Cost / month | Speed per form |
|---|---|---|
| Front-desk staff retyping | $3,500-5,000 (1 FTE × 30h/wk × $25-35/hr) | 4-8 minutes |
| Outsourced data-entry agency | $1,800-3,000 | 24-72 hours turnaround |
| Off-the-shelf OCR (Adobe, ABBYY, etc.) | $50-200/mo subscription | 2-5 minutes (manual cleanup needed) |
| NurseOCR (this product) | $1,500 flat unlimited | 4 seconds |
Pay flat. Don't think about it again. No per-form fees, no surprise overage, no per-seat charges.
I work at an LA clinic alongside building this. License VN759133, California Board of Nursing.
Not a generic OCR repackaged for healthcare. Built specifically because I watched front-desk staff lose hours weekly.
Private-tier with BAA available. No training on your patient data, ever. Servers in US-readable jurisdictions only.
Reply to support email — it's me. Same email that wrote this page.
Default tier processes through Hetzner Helsinki (EU-jurisdiction). For HIPAA-covered work we offer a private-tier deployment on US-based infrastructure with signed BAA, 24-hour audio/document retention, and encrypted-at-rest storage. Email hello@lessrec.com with "BAA" in the subject for the private-tier intro.
Patient intake, insurance verification, allergy/medication lists, consent forms, custody/guardianship paperwork, vaccination records, school physicals, sports clearance forms, prior-authorization requests. Anything single-page handwritten or typed where the goal is to extract structured fields.
Not yet, intentionally. Direct EHR integration adds 6-12 months of HIPAA-compliance work and your IT will hate adding another vendor. Today we deliver a clean .docx; staff copies into their EHR. Most clinics find this faster than they expected. EHR-direct integration is on the roadmap for 2027.
Whisper-class vision models handle messy handwriting better than off-the-shelf OCR (ABBYY, Adobe). For genuinely illegible handwriting we mark the field "[unclear]" and let your staff verify against the original. The free 5-form pilot lets you test on your actual forms first.
Email us 5 real intake form photos (PHI redacted is fine — we just need to verify the layout works). We process them, send back .docx output, you decide if it's worth $1,500/month. No commitment, no card, no signup.
Yes — up to 10 staff on the standard plan. Each sends to the same Telegram bot or web upload portal. We log activity per user so you can see usage.
English and Spanish supported. Spanish accuracy is ~93-95% on clean handwriting. Other languages on request.
If your clinic does fewer than 30 forms a month, this isn't worth it for you yet. Use the free Telegram bot at @nurseocrbot for occasional forms (10 free per month, no signup). Come back when volume grows.
No card, no signup, no demo call. Email 5 form photos, get clean .docx output back within 24 hours.
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