EPA's Pesticide Label Matcher

The Pesticide Label Matcher (PLM) Android application quickly and efficiently provides access to pesticides products data that compares market labels against the federal label databases to assist enforcement personnel in identifying potentially volatile products. The application leverages optical character recognition (OCR) technology to convert an image of a label to text, and then compares it with the approved federal master label, that can be used by regulatory entities, the states, and EPA. The PLM may dramatically improve inspector efficiency, allowing for a larger universe of labels to be inspected, and compliance rates to improve over time.