Pill Counting AI

Bring real-time intelligence to every count with Roboflow Vision AI for pill counting. Built for pharmacies where hand counting by fives is slow and a miscount on a controlled substance becomes a discrepancy, and for packaging lines where the bottle filler count needs a second check.

Accurate counts:

• Count tablets and capsules on a counting tray in one image, with a model trained on the shapes, sizes, and colors you dispense.
• Separate pills that touch, overlap, or sit in a pile, where simpler counters double-count or miss.
• Show the count with each pill marked so the pharmacist or technician can confirm at a glance.

Quality and the right drug:

• Flag broken, chipped, and split tablets that should not be dispensed.
• Detect a tablet that does not match the rest of the count by shape, color, or imprint, which catches look-alike mix-ups.
• Check the product against the expected drug before the count is bagged or bottled.

Records and packaging lines:

• Save an image of each count with the prescription, NDC, technician, and time for the record.
• Support controlled substance counts and inventory reconciliation with image evidence.
• Verify tablet counts at bottle fillers and blister packing on pharma packaging lines.

Bring intelligence to every count today. Stop miscounts and wrong tablets from becoming discrepancies, errors, and rejected lots.

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Frequently asked questions

What is pill counting with Vision AI?

Pill counting with Vision AI uses a camera over a counting tray, a phone or tablet, or a camera at a bottle filler and a trained computer vision model (opens in a new tab) to count tablets and capsules, separate touching pills, and flag broken tablets or pills that do not match the rest. Each count is saved with an image. It sits alongside count and quantity verification, prescription label scanning, and Vision AI for pharmaceuticals.

Can Vision AI count pills that are touching or piled up?

Touching pills are the main reason simple image counters fail, and a detection or segmentation model trained on your own tablets handles them well because it finds each pill as an object.

Does pill counting support FDA, DEA, and state pharmacy requirements?

Pill counting supports record-keeping under DEA 21 CFR Part 1304 (records and reports of registrants handling controlled substances) and state board of pharmacy rules for dispensing accuracy, and for manufacturers, count verification under FDA 21 CFR Part 211 (current good manufacturing practice for finished pharmaceuticals) with electronic records under Part 11 (electronic records and signatures).

Roboflow serves as the counting engine, and your pharmacists and quality teams own verification, dispensing decisions, and validation.

Can it integrate with our pharmacy system and packaging line?

Yes. Roboflow sends counts, flags, and images over REST (opens in a new tab) or writes them to a database, so they can be attached to the prescription record in pharmacy management systems and to inventory and controlled substance logs. On packaging lines, it writes count and pass/fail to a PLC tag over OPC UA or MQTT so a bottle with the wrong count is rejected, and records go to the MES and electronic batch record.

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