Recently I did an issue of the DocumentSnap Newsletter where I talked about scanning apps that perform OCR. In other words, an app that gives you the ability to take a picture of a document and make a searchable PDF right on your device.
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Afterwards, awesome DocumentSnap reader Chip Shanley made the case for Prizmo, an iOS app that I didn’t include in my initial roundup. I wish I had.
I bought Prizmo and headed to my usual real-world scanner app testing lab, my local Starbucks. Compared to the other OCR apps out there, the results were impressive.
Capturing Documents
Prizmo works like most scanning apps. You use your iPhone or iPad’s camera to capture a page, and it supports single or multiple-page documents.
It will then allow you to adjust the scan, choose the language (there is OCR support for ten European languages), and even adjust the readability of the text (this can be important for the OCR).
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Extracting Text
While Prizmo can be used as a normal scanning app, the main reason to invest in it is its near-desktop-class OCR. Once you’ve captured your scan, you can hit Recognize and it will show you the text in the document.
You can then move things around if you need to.
When you export, you can export either a PDF or text file with the text extracted out of the document or a searchable PDF with text embedded.
Here are a few sample scans.
Those scans are with no adjustments made. I am sure I could get even better OCR results if I fiddled with the settings. As it stands now, just the default is better than most other OCR apps.
Translation
If OCR wasn’t enough, Prizmo has a built-in translation engine and will translate text between European languages.
When no one was looking, I grabbed this Starbucks package off the shelf (in Canada everything has to be French and English). Here’s some text I captured.
Here is the translated version in Prizmo.
Not bad at all.
Voice
You can also have Prizmo read out the text, and there are different voices for each language. You have a lot of control over the voice and the speed that the text is read, and makes for a very cool feature.
Hard To Beat
If all you are doing is capturing one-off scans, there are scanning apps out there that are cheaper or even free. However, if you are looking to create searchable PDFs and/or extract text out in multiple languages, it is hard to beat Prizmo’s accuracy.
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Prizmo 3 – Pro scanning to PDF + OCR 3.7.2
Developer: Creaceed SPRL
Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation into 59 languages.
No matter what capture device is at hand, Prizmo is the best option for scanning and performing OCR. It works with pictures taken with your iPhone, iPad, or digital camera, with documents coming from connected or Wi-Fi scanners, even with screenshots! It will help you easily scan any documents (invoices, receipts, boards, giant advertisements…) of any sizes (US Letter, US Legal, A4, and custom)…
“My results were great, and it could definitely act as my only scanner. But, it really isn’t only a scanner, it can be used on anything. If you see a movie poster or an ad that you like, and would like to have documented, just take a picture, and Prizmo will help you with perspective, cropping and everything else.” (by Joe Turner – MacApper
Optimized for macOS High Sierra.
• Revamped user interface taking advantage of latest macOS translucency and vibrancy
• Handoff support for offering simple interactions between your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• 2 extensions available from other apps: Crop & Cleanup, Recognize Text
• Support for third-party exports
Main Features
• Specific Processing for Business Cards, Multipage Texts and Images
• Input File Formats: regular photo files including JPEG, RAW, TIFF, as well as PDF files (even multipage)
• Input Options: digital cameras (iPhone, iPad, DSLRs…), camera tethering, Continuity Camera on macOS Mojave, connected and Wi-Fi scanners, screenshots, snap any text from your screen
• New built-in neural network-based OCR in 25 Languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
• Detection of 3 Types of Regions: texts, images and numbers Flyers templates for pages 1 1 download free.
• OCR Editing and Correction: add, delete, merge and reorder regions on the one hand, edit text for correcting mistakes on the other hand
• Automatic Frame Detection: lay the page, snap it, and let Prizmo handle the cropping
• Automatic Text Orientation Detection
• Perspective Correction to Compensate Camera Point of View
• Non-linear Lens Distortion Correction
• Page Curvature Correction for Books and Magazines
• Real-time OCR Results: moving/resizing region frames immediately updates text results
• Resolution Increase: image enhancement allows OCR results where OCR is generally not even thinkable
• Output Formats: image files (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), and text files (PDF with Spotlight-searchable text, RTF, TXT) – even multipage!
• Prizmo Document Sharing across Macs through iCloud (native documents only)
• Export to the Evernote, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV Online Services
• Cloud-based Statistical Translation into 59 Languages (neural network method requires Pro Pack, see below)
• Accessibility Feedback for the OCR Processing (blank, blurry image, etc.)
• Text-to-Speech for Reading Scanned Texts: over 90 voices in 26 languages with navigation settings and interactive reading progress display (available for free in macOS Preferences)
• Extensions: Crop & Cleanup, Recognize Text
• Handoff support
• Enhanced for the Retina Display.
Prizmo 3 – Pro Pack
If you process many text documents, you’ll be interested in the Pro Pack. It is available as in-app purchase, and includes the following additional features:
• Batch Document Processing
• Automator Action for automatically performing OCR as a workflow action or smart folder
• Custom Export Scripts for integrating Prizmo in enterprise workflows using custom Unix scripts and AppleScripts.
• Neural network-based translation in 22 languages: see https://creaceed.com/prizmo
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– Fixed a crash that could occur when moving or resizing a text region.
– Fixed a crash when using the Snap Screen tool when multiple displays are attached to the Mac.
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– Fixed the page cropping user interface that could become corrupt when selecting another page.
Information
Size 28.7 MB
Compatibility
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Languages Keyshot pro 7 2 135.
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English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
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