Eventually, the OCR solution for all Mac users
Scan with your Digital Camera. It's just that easy!

Prizmo, or how to scan without a scanner!

Do you want to

archive your invoices and make them Spotlight indexable?

save your receipts on a hard disk for the day you might get a tax control?

get rid of the business cards which are all over your office?

copy a document although you don't have a copier at home?

etc.

From now on, if you can take a picture of something with your digital camera, you don't need to buy a scanner anymore. Save money and room in your house/office. Use Prizmo instead to scan your documents!

New! Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

OCR on the Mac? Yes, there are a few applications on the market but they are either far too expensive or unreliable. At the end of the day, most Mac users were pretty disappointed, and thought it better to wait for something else.

This time is over. We integrated the technology of a world famous OCR specialist, ExperExchange Inc., into Prizmo, and released a user-friendly and reliable solution all Mac users can afford. So, you can really do without a scanner, even more now.

Prizmo's character recognition technology supports 10 languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). And the results are Spotlight indexable.

How does Prizmo work?

1.Take a picture of your document.
2. Import it into Prizmo.
3. Select the part of the photograph you need.
4. Easily process the image in a few clicks (change brightness, contrast, height and width...).
5. Drag and drop it to your desktop.
6. Send the image by email, print it, save it on your computer or on an external disk... as you like it!

Have a look at the examples in the gallery.

New! How does OCR work?

Steps 1 to 3 above are the same. Then,
1. Choose the text language.
2. Set the binarization level.
3. Choose the file type for saving the OCR results (PDF, RTF...), and that's it!

Does Prizmo support all cameras?

Compact cameras, DSLRS,... every digital camera is fine. The higher resolution the better of course, but you can get good results even with your iPhone camera. Nowadays, cameras often have 10 megapixel sensors. A 10 megapixel image is roughly as good as, or even better than a 300 dpi US-Letter scan. With some image processing improvements and binarization, you can even go beyond 600 dpi with such images.

Is scanning limited to documents?

No, it isn't. As Prizmo corrects lens distortion and perspective as well, you can scan almost everything. Even if you take pictures with your mobile phone when you are on the way.

For instance, you can:

Save a menu in a restaurant to impress your next date.

Easily email a readable real estate advertisement to your parents who would like to buy a new house.

Send to your friends the poster of an event (party, concert,...) you would like to attend.

Save nice advertisements for giving you ideas for your next marketing campaign

...

Community-based Camera Calibration

Calibrating your camera can help you achieve better results when you use Prizmo. With a good calibration model, Prizmo can indeed better correct lens distortion on your photographs.

Prizmo accesses a calibration model database on Creaceed's servers:

You can download the best models available for your camera.

When you calibrate your camera, you decide whether or not you share your calibration model with the other users of Prizmo.

Download now the free demo version and give Prizmo a try!