![]() ![]() Prizmo exports to text, RTF, searchable PDF, and image files, but not to spreadsheet or HTML format as FineReader Express does. Finally, at the far right end of the toolbar-and what felt a bit like the end of a quest-I could click an Export button and save the recognized text to Evernote, Box.com, Dropbox, Google Drive, any other WebDAV drive, an e-mail recipient, or-as in traditional OCR-a file. There's also a button for reading the extracted text aloud, using OS X's built-in speech feature, and for translating the extracted text into any of dozens of languages, though a built-in connection with Microsoft's translation service. I could use this pane to make manual corrections to the recognized text before exporting it-a feature not available in ABBYY FineReader Express.Īlso, in this Recognition window, a new toolbar replaced the original one, with icons for adding, removing, and reordering the regions identified by the app. After I clicked the Recognize button, the app overlaid the image with rectangles showing where it detected text, and opened a pane next to the image with the text that the app had extracted. When I clicked that button, the color image changed from color to black and white, showing the black text that the program would now recognize when I clicked yet another button, this one marked Recognize.Īs you can guess from this report, there are plenty of underdocumented steps that you need to perform to get the best possible results, and we're not through yet. Toolbar icons let me rotate, crop, or make brightness and other adjustments to the image before clicking the OCR button. An optional preference automatically applied distortion correction to the image based on the geometry of the iPhone's camera lens. ![]() In ActionWhen I snapped a picture with an iPhone plugged into my Mac, the picture instantly appeared in Prizmo's window. The third takes you to your iPhoto library and the Pictures folder in your user folder. The second opens OS X's scanner dialog and lets you work from a scanner. But after I clicked that button, Prizmo showed me a spacious window with the message "Drop a Picture of Text Here" and three further options: "Open Image File.", "Import from Scanner or Camera." and "Browse Image Library." The first option works as you expect: select a PDF, PNG, JPG, or any other standard image format and open it in Prizmo's window. I finally figured out that I needed to click the "New Document" button at the foot of the window, which was also slightly puzzling since I didn't realize I was creating a document-I thought I was perform OCR on an image. Puzzling PrizmoI was slightly puzzled when I launched Prizmo because it required me either to open an existing Prizmo document from iCloud or my Mac, but of course I didn't have any Prizmo documents since I had never run it before. ![]()
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