[Announcement] Prizmo Go for iPhone & iPad. Instant Text Capture.

well I tried this app, I never had much luck with other versions of prizmo and this is the same thing, I am not quite sure how the app gives shooting instructions I get haptic feedback if I tilt the phone or flick through the options with VoiceOver. But that's about it, after a few minutes of using it I never got anything recognizable, its a shame as the cloud OCR might have been interesting. But I would say that at least on first go knfb reader seems to still be the gold standard as far as an accessible OCR solution goes. Hopefully this app can be improved. Its great that the company is considering the needs of blind users, but there is far more to getting good results than just good VoiceOver accessibility, but full marks to you for trying and maybe it might improve in the future. I mean obviously this can't be a clone or copy of knfb reader but I would say feedback and helping to line up with text needs a lot of work, before I remember when prizmo used to try to give feedback to help line up with text it was two chatty and unreliable, knfb readers field of view report solves this problem quite nicely. Just for reference I got my first usable results from knfb reader within a minute or two of trying it for the first time, with this app tried about 5 or 6 pictures and got rubbish back. I tell you what I would really love would be a good realtime OCR solution that is a gap in the market knfb reader hasn't filled yet, and hopefully if this app could be improved to help with lining up it might be equally as good as knfb reader in time.

I had better luck, but have only tried a few simple tests.

I downloaded the app, took a chance and paid for the functionality that would allow me to share the text, and pointed the phone at two different checks that needed cashing. I did not do anything to line up the camera, so I have no idea what kind of feedback the app might give. However, the text on the first check was read successfully and then I tried the second one. That translated to gibberish, so I tried turning the check 180 degrees and took another picture. It worked. There is an cloud-based OCR service available, but I have not tried that yet.

My first impression is favorable, but I will be testing it out much more thoroughly. As was noted above, I deeply appreciate the effort to make this accessible for VoiceOver users and look forward to the app becoming another one of those programs that we can all find very useful. Thanks for your current and future efforts.

Hi, thanks for the response, OK maybe I am doing something wrong I don't see any button called scene description when I launch the prizmo go app, going from left to right I see the following options, application settings, flash which can be on or off, stabilization same as flash either on or off, English, built in OCR, take picture, import image, and that's it. Just wondering why is the take picture button also being announced as a heading by VoiceOver? sounds like maybe that's a bug? I would say given that lining up is so important, this describe scene button shouldn't be tucked away somewhere, I hope its not a paid feature now that would be very disappointing, given that lining up is kind of important.

Hi, I have now found the button, thanks for telling me where to find it, the problem with it is that button is a serious mouthful, I mean given that we can look at the things like flash stabilization etc, do we really need that big long summary jammed into a button label, it was so long I didn't wait for the label to finish, why not just call it scene description or something? its two verbose in my view. also I have hints disabled as I am an experienced VoiceOver user so 9 times out of 10 for me they tell something very obvious I ready know, like for example double tap to open on anything that's why I don't bother with hints. The button does work just needs usability redesign. from having tested the button I think I prefer the way knfb reader gives its field of view report, much more straight forward for me to understand what I need to do to improve my accuracy, but even so I will try to test this app further, its always nice to have another tool available.
I am now just reading a review of this app done by one of the applevis editorial team, this looks very interesting, so if I understand it right, prizmo go does actually already have realtime OCR recognition? I must admit if this is correct I hadn't understood that from the description, I thought the point of cloud OCR was simply to take a still photo then go and process it for better text recognition I hadn't appreciated it worked in realtime is that the point of cloud OCR to work in realtime?

I already have a use case for this app which on its own is likely to earn it a permanent place on my Home screen.

If your Twitter timeline is anything like mine, there will be numerous times daily when somebody has attached a tweet as an image or included a screenshot of a web page: leaving you to guess at what that tweet or web page said.

Okay, okay ... there are already ways to grab the text from those attachments.

However, this app provides what (for me) is probably the most seamless, user-friendly and satisfying solution.

On my timeline in Twitteriffic, I went to an attached image; opened the native iOS share sheet; double-tapped on "Recognize Text"; and had that text read to me almost instantly.

As I said, it made for a very satisfying user experience, and made Twitter a little less frustrating.

So, a big thumbs up for the app from me.

What's the difference between this app and the regular Prizmo app? Having never tried Prizmo, I wonder which would be better to check out? Is Prizmo Go more VoiceOver friendly than the standard Prizmo? As others have said, I appreciate all the work that's been done concerning VoiceOver support. I'll go check it out.

well I tested the cloud based OCR and its actually as I imagined it would be, basically a still photo sent off to the cloud, will be interesting to compare it with knfb reader. One thing to note is that I have the trial pack, and I found that prizmo ate a few of my units even when they didn't have successful results, so that's a little worrying if I should decide to fork out cash for units. I will of course do more tests, need to find it something very challenging like a ready meal box, as knfb reader definitely doesn't do them well. But when the review talked about realtime OCR its not what I was hoping for when I read the term realtime OCR, I was hoping for something where it basically captures text from a video feed in realtime for processing, now I know that could get very expensive, but I would pay good money for that especially for things like navigating visual on screen menus etc.

Hi, OK so a few more questions about scene description, what should an optimum scene description sound like? for example with knfb reader its field of view report says all 4 edges visible, or the left edge, right edge and top edge visible, so how do we know what the best description is we can get.
also, what exactly does the gravity figure tell us? that really isn't obvious to me, as gravity is what keeps us on the ground haha so I couldn't begin to guess what it means in the context of a scene description. I have also done further tests with the scene description and it seems like it needs work doing to it. as an experiment I tried tapping the button when I had my phone pointing at the floor deliberately not at any text at all, and the scene description still reported it could see text haha.

Will it read handwritten text?

Hi. I tried this app on my iPhone 7 plus and it scanned my mail properly and I think it's good as the KNFB reader I would like to thank the author for developing a such a wonderful and reliable app?

Hello.
Can anyone tell me if this app can read memes? Thanks in advance

So, I have used the KNFB reader, Fine scanner pro, Identifi and now Prismo Go. Honestly, I'm very impressed with Go. I haven't used any of the premium features like cloud recognition, but I probably will. Even the basic recognition seems to be more accurate and user friendly than any of the others. I primarily use OCR apps like this to read printed documents at work, and especially to read big blocks of text on my 32 inch LCD screen when gaming. This last has proven very difficult with nearly all apps except Identify, and now Prismo. I prefer prismo because it is faster and easier to use, and it also appears to be more accurate. I also appreciate its landscape capabilities. All in all I have good things to say about this app so far.

Prizmo Go 1.0.1 is now available on the App Store. It brings some VoiceOver enhancements:
- The scene description button now has a short label for easier discovery.
- The volume down (physical) button now triggers scene description while volume up button triggers shooting.
- Added support for VoiceOver two-finger scrub gesture (Z shaped gesture) to go back to the camera screen.

hi all, i am wondering as to why i need to buy the export pack, just to get 100 or 1000 cloud-based units? I do not need the export pack, for my use cases, at least, not yet.thank you, Will

Now and again, an app is developed that has what I will call the wow factor. In my estimation Prizmo Go is one such app. I have used it extensively both the cloud and built in OCR and have received accurate results on a variety of document types.

Coupled with the fact that the basic app is free you cannot go wrong in my view

Thanks.

I was wondering when using this app it might report something like 23 lines of text visible. So, would this mean that the more lines visible, the better the scanned result should be? Thanks for this very nice app.

I have been using this app for only a couple of days now, and so far I am really impressed with it. I went ahead and purchased the five dollars export pack, which is a reasonable price considering its a one time only purchase, and costs about as much as a cup of coffee from Starbucks. Lol. Anyway, I can't say enough about this app. It's so wonderful to have a scanner in my pocket. The results with the built in OCR recognition is very good, with the cloud recognition being very good as well, and for 100 units for a dollar or 1000 for five dollars, the price can't be beat. I've used a flatbed scanner and the kurzweil 1000 software for windows with just as good, if not sometimes worse, results than this app. While KNFB reader may be the app many prefer, this app comes in a close second, especially for folks like myself who can't afford the 100 dollars price tag for the KNFB reader. I hope this app continues to grow and become even more useful. I highly applaud the developers for making voiceover accessibility a built in part of this app. Congratulations on a job well done. I've scanned several document types, and even some food boxes with favorable results. Once again, thank you for the hard work that was evidently put into this app.

Hi, what is the diference between the Prizmo app and Prizmo go?

hi does either app's ocr feature handle scanned mS word Images in a multi page PDF doc?

Some people send me these and I am looking for an app to convert it back into something readable By voice over.

Does Prizmo do it?