Tracking

From lab PDF to a tracker in one minute

How to get every marker off a Medichecks, Thriva, Randox or clinic PDF into one place where the change since last time is visible.

Updated 2026-11-08 · Part of the Magno guides

Most people on a protocol have their bloods in three places: a PDF in an email, a photo of a printout, and a screenshot of the flagged rows they posted in a forum. None of those show the change since last time, which is the only thing that matters after the first panel.

What a tracker needs to get right

• Names. Labs call the same marker different things: Oestradiol, Estradiol, E2, 17-beta-estradiol. Each needs to land on the same line.
• Units. UK labs report nmol/L and mmol/L; US labs report ng/dL and mg/dL. A tracker has to know both and never mix them on one line.
• Ranges. The lab range on the PDF is the honest range for that assay. It should be kept with the result, not replaced by a generic one.
• Dates. The collection date, not the report date, is when the blood was drawn.

How Magno does it

Drop the PDF, or a photo of the page, into the app or into the free reader at Read my bloods. The file is read on your phone with the text layer, or with OCR for scans and photos; nothing is uploaded. Every row comes back as marker, value, unit and range with a confidence dot, you correct anything the parser doubted, and it saves.

From then on each marker has one line across every test: the value, the lab range, the change since the last draw, and the panel it belongs to. Pro explains it in plain words: what each result is, which ones are outside your lab's range, and how related markers sit together.

The habit that makes it work

• Draw at the same point between injections, same time of day, same lab, so tests compare like for like.
• Import the PDF the day it arrives. Two minutes now saves an evening of typing later.
• Log injections in the same place, so the bloods sit next to the doses that produced them.
• Export the lot as a clean PDF before a doctor's appointment. Doses, blood pressure and every marker on a few pages beats a stack of screenshots.

Photos work too

A phone photo of a printed report reads fine if the whole table is in frame, the page is flat and the light is even. Photos of a screen are harder; a screenshot of the PDF is better than a photo of it.