Hello All, The new version 2 update of the Prizmo iOS OCR app is out, and the developers, Creaceed, have put this app on sale as part of its launch. Prizmo 2 is a free update for anyone who already bought the Prizmo iOS app. The app normally lists for $9.99 but may be purchased for $5.99 for a limited time: • Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech (on sale for $5.99) by Creaceed https://itunes.apple.com/app/prizmo/id366791896?mt=8
I've already tried out one new feature that will make this app useful even if you never use this with a camera to take pictures of a document to OCR -- you can open scanned PDFs in this app and OCR their contents. So if someone sends you PDF scanned documents as an attachment, you can just double tap on the attachment and select "open in" then choose "Prizmo". The multipage document shows up on the main screen and you just double tap to open it. You can double tap each page and then double tap the "recognize" button at the top right corner, and read the text results. They've also simplified the work flow interface. The PDFs can be produced by other apps or opened from file or web sources like Dropbox, etc. (I haven't tried this yet.) If you want to take add images to a multipage document, there's and "Add new page" button. In addition to the original 10 languages that were supported in version 1, (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). You can get support for additional languages as free downloads: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. The Prizmo support web site documentation also mentioned that for accurate OCR from a device's camera image, at least a 3 megapixel camera is required. Thus, in addition to iPhone support, they state that the cameras of the iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad mini, and the 5th generation iPod Touch can be used. The built-in cameras of the 2nd generation iPad and the 4th generation iPod Touch are 1 megapixel or less. HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
