Prizmo Pro 3.7 – Scan and OCR documents with your digital camera or scanner.

January 28, 2019

Prizmo 3 is a revolutionary scanning application with optical character recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and iCloud support.

No matter what capture device is at hand, Prizmo is the key 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)…

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, connected and Wi-fi scanners, screenshots, snap any text from your screen
State-of-the-art OCR technology in 40 Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Detection of 3 types of regions: texts, images and numbers
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!
Export to the Evernote, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV online services
Online translation into 23 languages
Accessibility feedback for the OCR processing (blank, blurry image, etc.)
Text-to-Speech for reading scanned texts: over 70 high-quality voices in 26 languages with navigation settings and interactive reading progress display (available for free in OS X Preferences)
Enhanced for the Retina display.

What’s New

Version 3.7:

Added support for text recognition in Arabic and Hebrew.
Improved contrast of the toolbar buttons on macOS Mojave.
Fixed a bug that could cause an excessive memory consumption when opening several documents or using the Snap Screen tool.
Fixed a bug that would prevent the copying and pasting of document pages from the sidebar on macOS Mojave.
Fixed an issue where navigating between document pages using the keyboard wouldn’t work properly.
Fixed a crash that could occur when recognizing text.