Prizmo Brings Scanning To iPhone

Belgium-based Creaceed has released Prizmo for the iPhone. The All-in-One mobile scanning app follows the release of its popular Mac product of the same name. Using your iPhone's camera, the app scans documents and then allows you to share its output through email in a number of different formats. These include: vCards, CSV files, original or processed images. Prizmo includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) abilities as well, a minimum requirement for all scanners. Features include:

• Processing available for 4 document types: business cards, bills, regular text and whiteboards
• Voice Command for taking pictures (so you can avoid blurry pictures which then can't be used for OCR)
• Image Processing: rotate, crop, white picker, perspective correction
• State-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 10 languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian)
• Many output options: vCards, CSV files, original images, processed images
• Export to Dropbox and CloudApp
• Translation using Google Translate service
• Document Viewer for storing processed documents for later use
• VoiceOver support for people with impaired vision
• High-quality Text-to-Speech Technology for reading OCR'd texts - 35 male and female voices available in 10 languages - A sample text can be played for previewing the voice before purchase
• Optimized for Retina display (iPhone 4)

After playing around with the app for a while, I found it pretty remarkable. Bills and business cards scanned nicely, and the interface was very intuitive. However, as with most scanners, expect to add some of the information yourself. For example, on one of the business cards I scanned, it didn't like the placement of the person's email address on the card. For this, I had to add the information myself. Prizmo is available now in the App Store for $9.99.

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