Mobile-Captured Drug Packs

This dataset includes 2000 mobile-captured drug pack images. It is used as a part of a drug label data extraction research. The research is concerned with extracting drug data from packagings to be stored by patients in countries with no electronic medical records. The images in the dataset have the following characteristics: 1. A total of 2000 images of drug packs are captured at different angles. 2. Backgrounds are made of paper, cloth, and plastic. 3. No transparent, reflexive, or patterned backgrounds. 4. 140 images were captured with flash on. 5. 1860 images were captured in different lighting conditions and without the use of a flash. 6. Drug packs only were captured. Nothing was captured without its pack. 7. Captured drug packages contain tablets, capsules, syrups, creams, ampoules, gels, drops, ointments, and other types. 8. 166 drug packages were captured. 9. Images were taken using 7 devices: • Huawei P30 Lite • Huawei Cun-L21 • Samsung A50 • Samsung A30s • Oppo A9 2020 • Realme 6 • iPhone XS Max 10. The images are in the following resolutions: • 3264 x 2448 pixels – 72 dpi • 1920 x 1080 pixels – 72 dpi • 2336 x 1080 pixels – 72 dpi • 4224 x 5632 pixels – 96 dpi • 6944 x 9280 pixels – 72 dpi • 899 x 1599 pixels – 96 dpi • 3024 x 4032 pixels – 72 dpi 11. Some drug packs have handwriting. 12. Some images contain shadows and flash burns. 13. Some images were resized or compressed.