Prizmo lets you scan and recognize text documents, business cards, bills, and whiteboards, then share the results across your computers and with other people through the Cloud. Prizmo uses state of the art technologies; it has highly accurate OCR, has speech-operated shooting, and has intelligent document interpretation to achieve these goals. Brought to you by Creaceed.

Review

Prizmo combines OCR (Optical Character Recognition), text to speech, and translation all in one place. Prizmo can read the text to you with the addition of an optional text to speech module. There are 35 voices you can choose from, in ten languages. Each module is $2.99. Most of the program features do not need an internet connection. Scanning and OCR are built into the program. After you take an image or import it from your camera roll, you can crop and enhance the image to assure a good capture. You can also rotate the image, because the OCR software wants to see the text oriented correctly. There is also an option to white balance the image before the OCR step.

The OCR process is very fast, and in a couple of seconds you have the text. From that point, you can copy the text, email it scan a menu, translate the text to English, or have it read to you.

Some downsides; the app appears to have no easy way to capture the addresses on a business card. The OCR picks it up, but the contact template doesn’t include an address field. You can create one, but you’d have to re-type everything into that field. I also thought the built-in help was very phony. It connects to the developer’s website, but the text is small and the information is meager. If you visit the Prizmo website there isn’t much more.

Tips
1.Place the document on a flat surface.
2. Use the voice command “Take Picture” to avoid motion blur (instead of tapping the iPhone’s screen).
3. Take the picture carefully and in good light. If it looks blurry on preview, use the Retake button to take a new shot

Recommendations
Prizmo is available at the App store for $9.99. It is overall, a great app and if you have a need for it, buy it.

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Note: A promotional code was provided by the creator for use in this article.

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