Scans, detects, and saith Prizmo 2

The text recognition (smartphone) cameras not yet achieved to some extent the results of conventional scanners. For 'Quick & Dirty' That's enough now, however loosely. And the benefits are obvious.

Prizmo (€ 5.49; universal; App Store link ) was found for the first time in December 2010 on my iPhone. Version 2.0, since yesterday in the download directory, dispels some dusty UI elements. A brief mention is overdue.

The software scans, detects, and speaks, but the user starts out of the way. An annoying dialogs and pop-up menus was saved - Maccessibility praises (voiceover) Accessibility.

From (white) photographed (web) texts (for example from an iPad) or from paper books produced excellent results. Magazine articles that paint black text on a colored background, it turns a precise words finding the color from the image. The manual post-processing is simple and understandable.

Partial raises the individual text boxes in their software (logical) order by each other - and this can be corrected by hand. Plows through the flowing text app reliably. If the detection rate, does the automatic translation and the reading with the help of additional speaker (I have each € 2.69 for the German voice of 'Julia' and the British speaker 'Graham' nachgeworfen).

Exports as a pure text document fails in the current version German umlauts. If you copy the lines of text to the clipboard, however, come in the target app also ä, ö and ü. This bug I have slipped the developer team.

My desktop scanners despite Prizmo still (long) is not used for a fast OCR digitization (on the road) but the 5-euro-application on the iPhone and iPad the perfect complement.