7/22/2023 0 Comments Prizmo dimension![]() ![]() If activated, Prizmo can now autoshoot documents without user intervention when a document is presented in front of the camera, perform page cleanup (texture, lighting compensation) automatically from the user’s preferences, quickly perform OCR as it automatically runs in the background. ![]() Shots can be validated as they are being made, and you can immediately retake the picture if needed. ![]() Most options are chosen (and preserved for next use) at the time of capture, to avoid unnecessary downstream manipulations. The overall workflow has been streamlined and simplified through a completely new user interface. New Capture Workflow 3 taps to capture, process, and upload PDF. Or even automate the whole app from the outside. What is interesting though is that in any of these steps, you can dig in to override some settings like OCR language, cleanup mode, or export to a specific format like Microsoft Word DOCX instead of PDF. When the document is closed (third tap), background OCR and PDF generation takes over, and after a few seconds, the cleaned and searchable PDF is sent to the cloud that has been pre-configured as well. When the user hits “Done” (second tap), the document is opened, with all pre-configured settings applied. The user can dismiss an ongoing capture just by moving the device away (motion = cancel), or he can pause capture altogether by maintaining the device in oblique fashion (obliqueness = pause). As soon as documents are presented in front of the camera, they will be shot after the “don’t move” progress bar completes. What happens behind the scenes is this: on the first tap, camera restarts with its last cleanup mode, page size, and OCR language pre-configured. That is, one tap to initiate camera & autoshoot documents, one tap to terminate shooting, and one tap to close the document and go back to the app’s main screen. Prizmo is a great example of this philosophy: internally it is the most complex app we’ve been working on, capable of so many kinds of manipulations, yet it proposes a fast path like we state on its main description: just 3 taps and you get your multi-page, cleaned up searchable PDF available in the cloud on all your devices. ![]() It is also good news business-wise as very often only the most common cases are well handled by the big names, this gives us room to explore. Instead, what we’ve tried hard to achieve is progressive complexity, that is, the most common cases should be handled simply, intuitively, with no compromise, and the less common cases, often the more complex ones, should get specific attention and options for when it’s needed. Nor was it to expose complexity up front. Simple or Capable App?Ī design philosophy that we’ve followed all along has never been to avoid complexity and complex problems because simple solutions for sure can’t handle all cases. New Messages extensions to scan & send a document without leaving the conversation.Much improved Text Reader with text-to-speech.Smart actions based on document contents (phone numbers, locations, etc.).New background processing (OCR + PDF generation) and Auto Upload for PDFs.New & much improved document editing workflow.New shooting experience: detection & tracking, CoreML analysis, result preview, VoiceOver feedback.New best-in-class machine learning OCR options: reliable & accurate on-device OCR, and high-performance cloud-based OCR (same as Prizmo Go), including handwriting.Focus on speed: in just 3 taps, have your document scanned, cleaned up, cropped, and text-recognized to a multi-page PDF right into the cloud.Here’s a quick recap of the most important new features: We are so excited to finally be able to share this with our users, and we hope you’ll like it as well. Prizmo 5 for iOS is an entirely new app with a new user interface, improved foundations, and with many features that we’ve brought back from Prizmo Go after some successful experiments. Our hope along the way has been to offer the best document scanning experience on iPhone and iPad. Documents with text are OCRed (text is recognized) and the generated PDFs are searchable by contents. Prizmo (App Store link, intro video, website) lets you scan documents on iPhone or iPad using the built-in camera or by loading input files, and then create PDFs with embedded text, read the recognized text aloud, or process business cards. We’ve been busy with Prizmo 5 for over two years and we’re proud to finally release it. Ten years after the initial introduction of Prizmo on the Mac, that came with the innovative idea, at the time, of using a digital camera as a document scanner, we are updating Prizmo on iOS. ![]()
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