Uploading Lab Results

Upload a lab report and ClapDiet reads the values out of it, shows you what it

found, and interprets the panel once you have checked it.

What you can upload

PDF — the report your lab or patient portal gives you

JPG or PNG — a photo or scan of the printed report

Nothing else is accepted: a HEIC photo, a Word document or a screenshot saved

in another format is refused with "is not a supported file". The size limit is

shown on the upload page beside the formats. It is 10 MB unless an administrator

has set it differently, and it can never be set below 1 MB or above 50 MB.

Uploading a report is part of the Pro and Family plans and of the 14-day trial.

On the Free plan the upload page shows "Lab PDF upload is a Pro feature" with an

Upgrade to Pro button — typing your results in

is free on every plan.

On the web

Open Lab Results from the navigation

Click Upload lab PDF

Drag the file onto the page, or click to browse, then click Upload lab results

Wait while the file is read — the page shows the upload progress and then "Processing…"

Check the table under We read your lab report

Click Save results & interpret

The table has a row per result: test, value, unit, reference range and flag.

Every cell can be edited, and a row that is not a result (a heading the reader

mistook for one, a comment line) can be removed. The Guidance column says

which rows ClapDiet has interpretation rules for — "Will be interpreted" — and

which it will store without dietary guidance. A row you rename is looked up

again when you save.

Not ready to check it now? Click I’ll review later. The panel appears on

Lab Results marked "Needs review", with an Apply extracted results

button that saves the rows exactly as they were read.

After saving you land on "Results saved": the interpretation's counts, an

Update my recommendations button that regenerates your food suggestions

from the new panel, and View my labs.

On the phone

Open the Labs tab

Tap Upload

Tap Upload PDF, or tap Upload Image and choose Take a photo or Choose from gallery

On Review Extracted Results, tap any row to leave it out

Tap the Confirm button — it counts the rows you kept

The review screen shows the reader's overall confidence and marks rows it was

unsure of "Needs manual review". The phone lets you include or exclude rows;

correcting a value is done on the web, or afterwards by adding a result to the

panel by hand.

If the file could not be read

A password-protected PDF, a page with no recognisable results, or a photo that

is too dark or blurred ends on "We couldn’t read this file automatically". The

panel has still been created, empty. Click Enter results by hand to type

the report's values straight into that panel, or Go to my labs and do it

later — an empty panel on Lab Results offers Add results by hand until

it has some.

Getting a clean read

Use the PDF from the lab rather than a photo of a screen

Photograph the whole page, flat, in even light, with the reference ranges in frame

One report per file — a file with several panels in it is read as one panel

The panel takes its name, collection date and lab from the report when they can be read, and today's date otherwise

If uploads are paused

An administrator can switch uploads off for everyone while a problem is being

fixed. The upload page then reads "Lab uploads are paused" and everything you

have already saved is untouched. Manual entry keeps working.

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Next steps:

Understanding Lab Interpretations

Supported Lab Tests