What is Prizmo?



Get rid of that pile of notes and documents.
Snap a picture, and store everything on your iPhone instead!


All-in-One Image Processing OCR Dropbox Translate Text-to-Speech




All-in-One Mobile Scanning & OCR App

Document Specific Processing
Tell Prizmo what you want to scan, and it will automatically apply a specific processing to each document type:
  • Business Cards: Prizmo pulls out all data from business cards, and enters the contact information into appropriate fields (name, company, job title, address, mail, website,...). Send vCards to your colleagues, or add the contact to your address book. You can even add new information to existing contacts.
  • Bills & Receipts: Split the bill between several people. Delete and edit items if necessary. You can even share the cost of an item (like a bottle of wine), and ask Prizmo how much you should add for the tip.
For more information about export options, read this.





  • Whiteboards: You no longer need to take down notes when attending a meeting. Take a picture of the whiteboard, and enhance the shot using Prizmo's image processing features. The meeting report is ready to be sent in a few clicks.
  • Text Documents: Avoid typing text from books, newspapers, leaflets..., and perform OCR on them instead. Upload the output to a Dropbox or CloudApp account. You can even ask Prizmo to read the text for you using one of the 35 high-quality speech synthesis voices available.



Business Cards
Whiteboards


Bills

Text Documents






Image Processing

Improve your shot in a few clicks
Taking a perfect picture with an iPhone is not that easy. It doesn't really matter however, as Prizmo can perform many image processing tricks for improving the photograph before applying OCR:
  • Rotate: Turn the image by 90° to the left or to the right until the text is horizontal.

  • Crop: Select the area you want to use for performing OCR. So, you can avoid other documents or items visible on your photograph, and which could lower OCR accuracy.

  • Correct Perspective: Move the grid corners to imitate the perspective. Prizmo will use this grid to straighten the image.

  • White Picker: Select an area on your shot which is white in the real life. It will help Prizmo adjust all colors.

  • Invert Colors: Use this when the characters to be recognized are white while the background is dark.








Focus: Easily straighten your shot by moving the on-screen grid corners.








Tip for improving OCR accuracy: Avoid blurry shots
by using the voice command "Take Picture".




Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Turn Paper Documents into Digital Information
We all receive tons of paper documents all the time. And what do we want to do with them? Get rid of them as soon as possible! Prizmo uses a state-of-the-art OCR technology to pull out all information from business cards, bills, text documents... and then save or share them.


Powerful OCR Technology in your Pocket
We integrated the technology of a world-famous OCR specialist, ExperExchange Inc., into Prizmo to release a user-friendly and reliable solution that grabs letters and numbers from your shot in a few seconds. That's really fast! And the results are impressively accurate with a photograph of good quality.

Prizmo's character recognition technology supports 10 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.

Depending on the selected language, the OCR engine will have no problem recognizing special characters like
  • é, è, à, â, ç... in French
  • ä, ö, ü and β in German
  • ç, ã, õ, ó, ê... in Portuguese
  • ø, æ and å in Danish
  • ...








Online Services Integration

Easily access your data from anywhere
You have a very busy life. You are very often away from your house or from your office, but you need to access important information all the time. There's no doubt you already have your own Dropbox or CloudApp account to help you share data across your devices, and with colleagues/friends.

That's why Prizmo's output options include:
  • Dropbox, the online backup, file sync and sharing service,
  • CloudApp, for sharing, accessing, and organizing images, links, music, videos and files.
  • Evernote, for archiving any notes, and for syncing them across your computers and mobile devices.
  • Apple's MobileMe, a subscription-based collection of online services and software.

What is more, Prizmo will remember your account information (see screenshot on the right), and show you the upload progress of your files on the Home Page (see screenshot below).










Microsoft Translate

Translate without Typing
Imagine you are on holiday abroad, and you don't understand the language spoken in this foreign country. Prizmo can help you at the restaurant for instance. Take a picture of the menu, perform OCR, and translate the output into your mother tongue using Microsoft's translation service. Now, you know what to order.















Text-to-Speech (TTS)

High-Quality Built-In Reader
Tired of reading all day long? Ask Prizmo to read the text for you instead! Simply scan the text and choose "Read" in the output options. Choose the voice and the speaking rate, and then listen. That's all! Prizmo will read the text for you, and it will signal which line is currently read with a moving white dot.

Text-to-Speech is also very handy for people with impaired vision. We even went a step further with Prizmo's user interface by supporting the VoiceOver feature available on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. It means that when you touch the screen, you'll hear which button, which menu... is at that location. You’ll also hear descriptions of items on the screen. It provides an amazing sense of context and relationship between the items you hear.


Available as In-App Purchases
35 male and female voices in 10 languages (developed by Acapela Group S.A.) are available in Prizmo. You can buy them through the iPhone's In-App Purchase system.

You can listen to a sample of each voice to help you choose which one you like the best:
  • In UK English: Lucy, Rachel, Peter and Graham
  • In US English: Heather, Laura, Nelly, Kenny and Ryan
  • In German: Julia, Sarah and Klaus
  • In Dutch: Femke and Max
  • In Belgian Dutch: Sofie and Jeroen
  • In French: Alice, Claire, Julie, Margaux and Bruno
  • In Canadian French: Louise
  • In Italian: Chiara and Vittorio
  • In Spanish: Maria and Antonio
  • In US Spanish: Rosa
  • In Portuguese: Celia
  • In Brazilian Portuguese: Marcia
  • In Danish: Mette
  • In Swedish: Elin, Emma and Erik
  • In Norwegian: Kari and Olav.








Voices are available as In-App Purchases
for $2.99 or 2,39€ each.