Prizmo 2.0.7 — May 22nd 2013

  • Prizmo has been localized into Czech and Norwegian
  • Prizmo document icons now reflect actual contents in Finder and iCloud windows
  • Better handling of iCloud document update (when updating a document that is open on the Mac from another device, iPhone, iPad, or another Mac)
  • Fixed various random crashes

Prizmo 2.0.6 — March 21st 2013

  • New translation languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hmong Daw, Indonesian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Persian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
  • Bug fix: Automator action problems introduced in previous update have been corrected

Prizmo 2.0.5 — March 2nd 2013

  • New: Added Latin as supported OCR language. We are fully aware they had no typewriters at the time, but you know, some students could well need that Latin-scanning capability anyway.
  • New: Application fully localized in Italian.
  • New: New documents are now set to the last chosen document type (Text / Image / Business Card). This makes it easier to process several documents of the same type in a row.
  • Bug fix: editing of business card information now behaves correctly after affecting recognized text to a field (Mountain Lion only).
  • Bug fix: page numbering during OCR is now correctly reported.

Prizmo 2.0.4 — February 11th 2013

  • Thai added as a new OCR language
  • Localized application to Portuguese
  • Bug fix: document sizing problem when changing resolution on PDF documents
  • Bug fix: block of text in exported PDF (regular) now include the last line of text in all situations
  • Bug fix: Evernote export problem that appeared with latest Evernote release 5.0.5

Prizmo 2.0.3 — November 30th 2012

  • Fixed a problem with multi-screen text grabbing: Prizmo OCR options now show up correctly when grabbing text from screen on Macs with multiple displays.
  • Fixed: scanning window is now accessible on second scan under Lion.

Prizmo 2.0.2 — November 20th 2012

  • New: Page cleanup: page can be cleaned up (previously known as normalize) to remove uneven lighting or texture. Specific gray cleanup (maximize contrast) or color cleanup (preserve color information) can be chosen. Gray cleanup works well for document taken on the go, while color cleanup is appropriate for whiteboard images written with color pens. Cleanup can now also be activated automatically from the advanced preferences for camera images.
  • Page thumbnails are now preserved as part of the document for faster document opening.
  • Screen grabbing formatting option: you can now decide to preserve line breaks (for source code for instance), or instead to make a continuous text
  • Screen grabbing now automatically recognizes negative input images (bright text on dark background). Ideal to get code from WWDC slides.
  • Default export type is now PDF for text documents, and preserved for the next export.
  • Export services can now be removed from the export palette in Prizmo preferences if not needed.
  • Pro Pack only: In Automator, Prizmo action can now use Automator variables for output file name.
  • Fix: Scanner feeder handling improvements. Scanned pages order is now preserved.
  • Fix: Fixed text editor bug: non-Roman text editing is now possible.
  • Fix: Multipage TIFF files are now properly handled.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash that could happen when grabbing screen.
  • Fix: Other minor UI improvements and fixes.

Prizmo 2.0.1 — November 3rd 2012

  • Evernote support is now made directly through the Evernote app itself. This provides more options to directly edit the created notes. Compatible with the latest Evernote version (version 5), as well as previous versions.
  • Better image caching: better memory usage after closing large documents
  • Fix: workaround for scanner access problem happening only in OS X 10.7.5
  • Fix: more robust perspective straightening for difficult cases

Prizmo 2 — October 31st 2012

  • Additional Pro Pack with options available as in-app purchase
  • Specific processing according to document type (business cards, text documents, or regular images)
  • Multiple-page document handling (editing and export as single PDF file)
  • iCloud support for sharing documents across Macs (support for iPhone coming soon)
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Data Interpretation
    • Real-time OCR: adjusting contrast or rectangle position immediately shows new OCR results
    • Over 30 additional installable OCR languages available as free downloads (list available here)
    • Adjustable, interactive readability for improved OCR results
    • Text editing: OCRed documents data (business card, text) can be edited alongside original image
    • Content analysis and interpretation as text, image or numerical regions
    • Powerful region handling (add, delete, merge and reorder regions)
    • Ability to change region types
    • Ability to affect recognized text to any business card field (business card editing only)
  • Image processing:
    • Automatic frame detection
    • Automatic text orientation detection
    • Automatic resolution handling depending on input image source (scanner, screen, photograph)
    • Resolution increase (documents with too low resolution to be OCRed - such as screenshots - can now be processed with 2x or 4x resolution increase)
    • Much better handling of lighting conditions
    • Improved grid positioning (freeform or perspective-locked)
    • Black point tool
    • Better scanner and camera integration
    • Better lens distortion correction
    • Better page curvature straightening
    • Copy settings from a page and apply them to other pages (handy when processing photos taken in the same conditions)
  • New output options:
    • Multipage document export
    • Address Book/Contacts for business cards
    • Text translation in 23 languages (using Microsoft Translate web-based service)
    • iCloud (editable Prizmo documents)
    • Mail
    • Evernote
    • Box.net
    • Dropbox (requires the installation of separate Dropbox app)
    • Google Docs (requires the installation of separate Google Drive app)
    • WebDAV
  • Accessibility support:
    • Automatic frame detection (Prizmo detects page borders when the document is laid on a table with good contrast)
    • Voice Over support
    • Feedback of operations (e.g. to inform if text was recognized or not)
    • Full automatic processing feature
    • Text-to-speech support (text is spoken aloud, and each word gets highlighted as it is pronounced)
    • Around 80 female and male voices available as free downloads (as part of Apple offering)
    • Support for 26 text-to-speech languages
    • Speaking rate control
    • Document navigation (play/pause/next/previous buttons)
  • Pro Pack only:
    • Batch document processing
    • Automator action for automatically processing collections of files, and integrating with existing workflows. These options allow to integrate Prizmo in company workflow by automating the OCR process with Automator. You can export the result to any app or service with custom Automator actions. You can also create a smart folder that will automatically process files that are added to it, for instance.
  • Grab text from the screen (OCR can be processed on regions of screen containing unselectable text, and the resulting text is copied to the pasteboard)
  • Improved user experience
    • Completely new user interface with focus on usability
    • Retina display support
    • Fullscreen mode
    • Document autosaving and versioning
    • Automatic termination and restart
    • Multitouch zoom in/out
    • Sandboxing for improved security

Prizmo 1.5.8 — March 15th 2012

  • Image settings are now reset when a new image is imported
  • Fixed empty preview bug for custom extraction frame

Prizmo 1.5.7 — August 10th 2011

  • Updated for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: fixed import from scanner problem
  • Updated for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: fixed import from camera problem
  • Updated for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: resizing/maximizing for main window
  • Updated for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Half-tethering for connected camera
  • Added paste image capability
  • Fixed OCR regions display bug

Prizmo 1.5.6 — June 20th 2011

  • Fixed: bug preventing scanner document handling
  • Version supporting Snow Leopard only

Prizmo 1.5.5 — May 13th 2011

  • Integrated iMedia 2 for a better image browsing experience
  • Open With... Finder command now works with Prizmo
  • Display of progress indicator while enumerating iPhone photos
  • Added visual notification when performing OCR multiple times
  • Fixed: Initial crossing frame bug
  • Fixed calibration upload problem
  • Fixed OCR Results Window positioning bug

Prizmo 1.5.4 — November 2nd 2010

  • Italian Localization: user interface
  • Swedish Localization: user interface
  • Improved Dutch Localization

Prizmo 1.5.3 — June 1st 2010

  • Portuguese Localization: user interface
  • Danish Localization: user interface
  • Norwegian Localization: user interface

Prizmo 1.5.2 — May 25th 2010

  • Spanish Localization: user interface
  • Improved automatic sizing of grid

Prizmo 1.5.1 — May 3rd 2010

  • Dutch Localization: user interface

Prizmo 1.5 — April 1st 2010

  • New: Camera Tethering
    • Full Tethering: Prizmo can now take a picture when the camera is plugged in (USB)
    • Half Tethering: If you take a picture when the camera (or iPhone) is plugged in, Prizmo imports it automatically
  • New: Page curvature handling
  • New: Support for PDF documents (even multi-page PDFs)
  • New: "Save over" option
  • New camera content browser in Snow Leopard
  • Improved interaction with network scanners
  • Improved OCR result previewing
  • User interface enhancements (flip, reset distortion buttons...)
  • Many small enhancements and bug fixes

Prizmo 1.2 — November 12th 2009

  • Snow Leopard only: Image acquisition from connected scanner
  • Fixed bug: OCR now working on case-sensitive filesystem

Prizmo 1.1 — September 15th 2009

  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility
  • OCR: Highly Accurate OCR Engine with Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian)
  • OCR: In-place Display of Recognized Text Blocks inside Input Images
  • OCR: Text Skimming on Recognized Text Blocks (previewing OCR results)
  • OCR: Export of formatted output (RTF, PDF)
  • OCR: Export of Image with Hidden Text (Spotlight Indexable) as PDF
  • OCR: Selective Copy/Paste of Text Blocks
  • OCR: Adjustable, Interactive Binarization for Optimal Results even on Degraded Content
  • Image Processing: Eyedrop Tool for Page Background Determination
  • Image Processing: New option for inverting image (for working with light text on dark background)
  • Extraction Options: Easier setup of the extraction grid
  • Extraction Options: Automatic sizing of the grid based on its position inside the image
  • Fixed: Crashes when manipulating the grid
  • Fixed: Several other minor bugs

Prizmo 1.0.1 — April 21st 2009

  • Fixed asymmetric distortion problem for elongated images
  • Fixed drag and drop problem from camera browser to calibration assistant

Prizmo 1.0 — April 20th 2009

  • First Release
  • English Localization: user interface and user guide
  • French Localization: user interface and user guide
  • German Localization: user interface