Prizmo for Mac [Review]
Date: July 10th 2010
By: Barrie Smith
Language: English

"(...) The result was that I had a text file that was 99 per cent perfect, falling down only where there were line breaks. Spelling? 100 per cent correct! (...)
To assess its OCR talents I ran the text images through a dedicated OCR Program — ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint Plus — and found that on most images Prizmo performed better. Nuff said! "

"Everything's" NEW - Intro - Prizmo Review
Date: July 6th 2010
By: Felix Wech
Language: German



Ich und mein Mac // Folge 18: Texterkennung Prizmo
Date: May 8th 2010
By: Johannes and Max
Language: German


Reviews: Prizmo 1.5
Date: May 2nd 2010
By: Laurell Davenport from Silicon Mountain Macintosh User's Group
Language: English

"(...) Why do I need to buy a program when I can import my photos into my Mac with Apple’s Image Capture” you ask? Good question. The answer is, Prizmo does so such more. (...)
When I first discovered this program, I was intrigued. The more I looked into what it could do, the more I wanted it - not for OCR but to straighten photos. (...)
I know that the whole idea of this is to scan without a scanner, but if you do have a scanner, you can still benefit from this program. The OCR and Image Distortion correction functions worked perfectly on my scanned images. (...)"

Review "Prizmo"
Date: April 14th 2010
By: BenzpyrenTV2
Language: German



[Review] Prizmo – Der Scannerersatz auf dem Mac
Date: March 19th 2010
By: Sven-Markus Meister
Language: German

"(...) Erfreulich gut funktioniert das ganze, wenn man mit dem iPhone einen ausgedruckten Zettel abfotografiert. (...)
FAZIT: Als Scannerersatz ist das Programm schon relativ gut geeignet. Das Ausschneiden von bestimmten Bildabschnitten ist wirklich sehr gut."

Prizmo - Texterkennung in 10 Sprachen
Date: February 28th 2010
By: Marian Hirschfeld from ScreenMac
Language: German



Coup de coeur pour Prizmo
Date: November 2009
By: iCreate nr. 52
Language: French




Prizmo, soluzione OCR per Snow Leopard
Date: November 19th 2009
By: Tiziano Dal Betto
Language: Italian

"(...) Per verificare la qualità del riconoscimento, basta scorere il mouse sul testo: in questo modo potremo valutare che cosa sia riuscito a riconoscere il programma. Nella pagina che ho acquisito a scopo di test, Prizmo si è comportato egregiamente, riconoscendo ogni singola parola senza commettere neppure un errore. (...)

Prizmo tuttavia non si limita alle sue funzioni di OCR, ma consente anche di correggere le prospettive di immagini e di bilanciare l’effetto lente di alcune fotografie. (...)

In definitiva, se state cercando un buon prodotto che sia in grado di riconoscere il testo importato da immagini o da scanner, Prizmo può essere la vostra scelta definitiva.(...)"

Readiris Pro 12 et Prizmo 1.1: L'un pour les pros, l'autre pour tous
Date: Vous et Votre Mac Magazine nr. 50 - November 2009
By: Bernard Le Du
Language: French

"Interface élégante
fonctions de base de traitement de l'image photographiée
OCR efficace et d'une mise en oeuvre ergonomique
prix très agressif pour une solution d'OCR grand public. (...)”

Review: Creaceed Prizmo
Date: October 28th 2009
By: Lisa Maloney
Language: English

"Prizmo is the tidy little application you didn’t know you needed, because it ties together all the loose ends of an archivist’s dreams. No longer do you need a scanner and special character recognition software, because Prizmo scans your digital camera photos and processes your images to extract the text you need in Mac OS X 10.5.8 and later. Prizmo lets you shift easily between file formats and between file uses. Offhand images of signs, labels, or receipts become legible renderings or valuable archive documents. (...)
Prizmo’s optical character recognition abilities are impressive. It does a good job of recognizing printed type, not just in a flat image but also in distorted, perspective-altered camera images. Suddenly those off-the-cuff, spontaneous images are usable again. (...)"

Test de Prizmo 1.1
Date: October 26th 2009
By: Ange Heureux
Language: French

"(...) Prizmo est un logiciel abouti, qui comporte plusieurs bonnes idées bien implémentées. L’interface est intuitive, les fonctionnalités relativement complètes. Les résultats de l’OCR sont variables (souvent bons, voire très bons, mais parfois étonnamment médiocres), mais de toutes les façons difficiles à qualifier, car ils dépendent pour beaucoup de paramètres (qualité de la police de caractères, des conditions de prise de vue, de l’appareil…). Le logiciel met à disposition un maximum d’outils pour contrer au mieux ces problèmes. Prizmo n’est pas prévu pour faire de l’OCR en grosse série, quoique la mémorisation des différents paramètres peut y aider, mais plutôt pour récupérer l’information issue d’articles de la presse papier, de notes, pages de livres... pour les conserver et surtout les retrouver facilement ensuite via spotlight, par exemple. Et dans ce cadre, Prizmo a son rôle à jouer."

Prizmo 1.1 uses your digital camera to scan text and apply OCR
Date: October 6th 2009
By: Erik Vlietinck
Language: English

"(...) Reprography is a specialised job, with specialised and often very expensive equipment, but Prizmo gets close enough to at least offer entry-level reprographic capabilities for the price of three pints of bitter. (...)
I found the OCR results to be good on average, with some texts recognised with a 99% accuracy and others below that. OCR is something of black art, no matter whose engine you’re using. (...)
Bottom line: Prizmo is ridiculously cheap for a product that already has powerful features and which promises so much more. I’d say give the demo a go and see for yourself!"

Prizmo 1.1: et votre appareil de photo devient scanner avec l'OCR en plus
Date: September 25th 2009
By: François Cuneo
Language: French

"(...) Photoshop fait tout ce que propose Prizmo, mais de manière beaucoup plus compliquée. Ici, vous n'avez que le strict nécessaire pour recadrer l'image, pour apporter les corrections optiques, et pour corriger l'exposition. (...)
L'arrivée de la reconnaissance de caractères: (...) Je suis vraiment impressionné. (...)
Oui, Prizmo est un très joli outil, qui va me rendre de fiers services, sans avoir besoin d'installer un scanner. Mieux même, le scanner, je l'ai toujours sur moi.
Donc un produit que je ne peux que vous conseiller d'essayer rapidement."

Prizmo : OCR via Camera
Date: September 15th 2009
By: David
Language: English

"(...) I tried the software on four different documents, all white paper with black text and attempted a number of different angled photographs. Happily and almost surprisingly they all worked perfectly.
The amount of image control in Prizmo is impressive for a $40 application and any further problems with recognition can be reduced by calibrating the software for your camera. Creaceed have also made it possible for users to swap their camera calibration files so there is no excuse for the perfect OCR.
This is a great application. If you have a phone camera it offers the ability to snap, edit and print whatever document is in front of you. The application couldn’t be easier to use with zero learning curve and even with the iPhone camera the software worked without issue. (...)"

Så skannar du med kameran
Date: August 19th 2009
By: Anders Lundberg
Language: Swedish

"(...) När du öppnat ett foto är det dags att markera vad som ska ingå i den färdiga bilden. Dra helt enkelt i hörnen på den ljusblåa ramen som dyker upp tills det passar in på dokumentet. Programmet räknar sedan självt ut perspektiv och rättställer bilden. Om du vill finjustera kan du zooma in och placera hörnen mer precist. Glöm inte att hålla ett öga på förhandsvisningen där du direkt kan se hur resultatet ändras när du gör små justeringar. (...)"

Prizmo: Digital Photo Scanning for the Rest of Us
Date: July 22nd 2009
By: Jonas Wisser
Language: English

"(...) Prizmo truly is an application that does one thing and does it well. It makes converting existing digital photographs to usable scans simple and easy. (...)
Overall, Prizmo is a very useful tool for people like me who lack the Photoshop skills (or license) and motivation to correct and crop all their photos by hand. (...)"

Prizmo: сканируем документы с помощью цифровой фотокамеры
Date: July 8th 2009
By: Юрий Романов
Language: Russian


Software Review: Prizmo 1.0.1
Date: July 2009
By: Eric Blair
Language: English

"(...) the Prizmo-digital camera combination will take up significantly less space and offers the additional freedom of being able to capture images without your computer and process them without being tied to the desk with your scanner. (...)"

Prizmo Review: Scanner-less Scanning
Date: June 11th 2009
By: Joe Turner
Language: English

"(...) My results were great, despite not being able to calibrate for lens distortion, and it could definitely act as my only scanner. But, it really isn’t only a scanner, it can be used on anything. If you see a movie poster or an ad that you like, and would like to have documented, just take a picture, and Prizmo will help you with perspective, cropping and everything else."

Pour scanner... sans scanner
Date: "Vous et Votre Mac" Magazine nr. 46 - June 2009
By: Bernard Le Du
Langue: French

"Très grande facilité d'utilisation; outil pratique, d'une utilisation presque quotidienne; traitements fiables, rapides et efficaces. (...)"

Resenha: Prizmo, um scanner em software pra quem já tem uma câmera digital
Date: May 18th 2009
By: Rafael Fischmann
Language: Portuguese

"(...) O aplicativo é simples e direto: em sua janela principal, basta arrastar uma imagem qualquer e começar a brincadeira.(...)"

Im Test: Scannen ohne Scanner mit Prizmo
Date: May 14th 2009
By: Felix Rieseberg
Language: German

"(...) Die große Frage ist freilich: Funktioniert es denn? Die Antwort lautet, einfach gesprochen, 'Ja'. Die Benutzeroberfläche ist simpel gehalten, erfüllt jedoch alle Anforderungen ist entspricht dem allgemeinen Apple-Feeling. (...)"

Prizmo
Date: May 14th 2009
By: Ronald Schoedel
Language: English

"(...) the entire process from dragging the iPhone image into Prizmo, to saving the “scanned” image out, took less than 30 seconds. As I frequently have the need to email documents such as receipts, Prizmo is an able companion to my MacBook Pro and it will help me get things done much quicker than if I had to wait till I am at home and in front of the scanner. (...) Aside from the very utilitarian use I just described, I also tried Prizmo for some “fun” tasks. When my family travels, I like to take pictures of the plaques or signs that often accompany notable landmarks. Often the words on these signs get obscured due to the angle at which the photo is taken. Prizmo takes your angled signs and basically “flattens” them. I ran some of these pictures through Prizmo, with the goal of saving out “scans” of the content of the signs. I was pleased with the results, once again. Almost no processing was required at all on any of these pictures. The results are impressive. Prizmo brought out the text of these pictures, where the text was previously angled poorly, very small, or otherwise hard to read.

How to Scan Without a Scanner - But You Do Need A Camera
Date: May 12th 2009
By: Nancy Gravley
Language: English

"(...) The bottom line is that this software does what it says it will do and it does is easily and quickly. I like the fact that it works with my inexpensive camera and with my iPhone and still gives results that allow me to get the information I need. Not everyone will have need of it, but for those who do, it is a great addition to the lineup of specialized Mac software. (...)"

Prizmo: Convierte tu cámara digital en un Scanner
Date: April 29th 2009
Language: Spanish

"(...) Prizmo en línea generales es una aplicación muy interesante, resulta verdaderamente útil para profesionales, ya que el precio no es apto a mi entender para personas que solo quieren escanear algún documento de forma esporádica. No obstante yo le daría un 8 sobre 10."

Scan uten scanner med Prizmo
Date: April 24th 2009
By: Panther
Language: Norwegian

"(...) Resultatene er overraskende gode og selv bilder tatt av kvitteringer med Apples iPhone kan bli gode. Benytter man i tillegg programvare som for eksempel Yojimbo til katalogisering og organsiering av kvittering og andre viktige dokumenter, kan dette bli en virkelig så smart løsning. (...)"

Prizmo: Scanning via a Digital Camera
Date: April 23rd 2009
By: David Appleyard
Language: English

"(...) There’s no doubt that the technology behind Prizmo is impressive, and the app works remarkably well. (...)
I can think of a few times in the past where Prizmo would have saved me a decent amount of time. It’s useful if you use a camera for collecting and recording information on-the-go, and can offer a good solution for scanning documents on an intermittent basis. (...)
Prizmo is technically impressive, and certainly comes in useful for scanning documents and recording information on-the-go. It does require you to have fairly modern hardware, and comes with a steep price tag."

First Look: Scannerless scanning with Creaceed Prizmo
Date: April 22nd 2009
By: Steven Sande
Language: English

"(...) I found that taking pictures of my receipts with the iPhone camera and then cleaning them up with Prizmo worked much better than just trying to hold the receipts up to my the iSight camera, which is what Evernote tries to do. (...)
Of course, you could do a lot of the same tricks with Photoshop or some other tools, but Prizmo makes the process fast and easy, even for beginners. My personal opinion is that the price is on the high side, but considering that one of the other alternatives for doing this type of work involves purchasing and carrying a small scanner, it might be worth the cost. (...)

Prizmo: trasforma qualsiasi fotocamera in uno scanner
Date: April 21st 2009
By: Daniele Piccinelli
Language: Italian

"(...) quando l'utente applica una modifica sull'immagine originale, il risultato è subito visibile nella finestra di anteprima. In questo modo anche chi non è un esperto di fotoritocco può procedere passo a passo fino a ottenere il risultato desiderato. (...)"

Prizmo - Dokumente mit der Kamera scannen
Date: April 21st 2009
By: Patrick Woods
Language: German

"(...) In unserem Beispiel haben wir das Titelbild der Macwelt in einem ungünstigen Winkel fotografiert. Mühelos erstellt das Programm daraus ein unverzerrtes Bild. Die wellenförmigen Muster des Schriftzuges stammen vom leicht gewellten Titelblatt. (...)"

Revisión de Prizmo + sorteo de 3 licencias
Date: April 20th 2009
By: Diego
Language: Spanish

"(...) Para mejorar aún más nuestros resultados, podemos descargar la información de nuestra cámara a través de la base de datos de Prizmo o subir la información de calibración de la nuestra; lo que es realmente interesante. Es magnífico que los propios usuarios podamos mejorar el rendimiento del programa. (...)"