Prizmo App Reviews

I use OCR for English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages mainly. I was really glad to see how well this worked for English, but I'm very disappointed that it doesn't have OCR for Asian languages. Please add them in future versions! Paid half price for this on Black Friday sale, so it's not too bad, but I really need Asian language recognition please.

I love this app so much it is perfect for having books that are not available as e-textbooks read to me for my college classes! Thank you so much for this convenience!

i hope you guys put arabic language in the next update

This application is the best simply because it allows the user to read anything people wish vision pigments people that have trouble this is the best investment

Dear Prizmo, I have a career that some would say evolves around your app, Prizmo. I work in the field and must have scan capability in order to do my job efficiently. The one thing, and I cannot imagine your team has not though about this, is there inability to use a search option to type in a word or words to find a folder that contains a specific set of scanned documens. It really slows me down when I am forced to search through my hundreds of files and scanned documents within those files that I have, all by way of using the Prizmo app and are stored within the Prizmo app itself. I have been using the app for years. I have accumulated hundreds of files within Prizmo with thousands of scanned documents. I just would like to have a way to type in there file name that I am searching for in order to not have to check each alphabeticalized file. Thank you in advance for reading & listening to my app feedback or review.

Doesn't support Chinese nor Japanese. Little disappointment.

So many pdf's are images! And if you want access to the text, this app is indispensable!

I love this app and am amazed on how accurate it can detect text, the only thing is if it could detect handwritten notes into text so many more people would download it. I would buy it a second time just for that feature

I have dyslexia which makes read anything hard. I have tried to find an app that will scan in a page and read it back to you. This app was the best a found. This app is great for books and magazines. It's not so good for restaurant menus. This app really only works on normal pages like what you find in a book. The reason I have this app 4 stars is because that app is expensive and only works for normal pages like in a book.

I recommend this app for users which need to process ocr in texts written in more exotic languages. Recommend.

Optional language packs are not being downloaded and not working. Scanned images can only be exported in PDF not JPEG. Pretty poor for the high price.

The app works very well most of the time and the OCR accuracy is high. The problem of repeated crashes when adding pages to a file seems to have been fixed. Customer support is not as good as Smile Software and I would be happy to pay more for the software to get it. I don't use the read text aloud feature often, but it does work very well. I use this app all the time for research.

The good: OCR sort of works, translation sort of works, document organization sort of works. The UI attempts to be convenient and organized. The bad: The OCR finds figures out a little more than 90% of the text, which still leaves a lot of little errors to laboriously fix. The OCR has no ability to recognize characters with accents, which hampers scanning and translating foreign language text. There's a host of clunky miss-features in the UI, but it tries: The default reading speed being way too fast. When you go to import a picture the app will inform you that it doesn't have permission to access photos but won't present you with the option of enabling photo access. It's remarkably easy to accidentally delete your work. There's a lot of unintuitive behavior, for instance when translating you have to set the original language with one menu then select the language to translate it into with another (no auto language detection). The app doesn't tell you that and just dumbly doesn't work when you first try to translate something. If you translate text it's apparently impossible to go back to the original and fix OCR bugs or even see the original language from before the translator mangled it. So translation is possible but extremely clunky. It's better to translate by using OCR here then copying and pasting into a good translator like google translate. Conclusion: sort of works, but very clunky. If you have ambitious plans to do a lot of OCR (and especially if you want to include translation) this isn't a solution for you.

i am sorry but this software is very bad. it does not worth totally.

I freaking love this app. It's the best app for scanning I could find but it makes me very sad the last update was 7 months ago. It feels like the team abandoned the app. It bothers me very much it doesn't use the whole screen from iPhone X. Please, don't let this app die.

This is useless. All I want this thing to do is to capture a paragraph in a book and turn it into text that I can copy and paste into Evernote. But all I get is a bunch of nonsense. Don’t waste your money on this app.

Don't buy this app if you are looking for a app to assist with reading. The scaning and character recognition is insufficent to scan and render text for the speach app to be actually useful.

Sometimes it works marvelously. The text you are trying to convert to OCR cannot have extra marks that makes fonts different.

Opened up a new world. I wish you would focus a little bit faster have to redo it a few times before I get it all but thank you for your technology

I have had nothing but very poor results with the OCR scanning in this app. Even with very clear text pages i'm still getting many errors. I have tried every variation of app configuration, tried different lighting and I get the same results. The voice reading is excellent if you can get a good OCR scan (but that is not what I'm looking for). I am looking for an app that does an excellent job of OCR scanning this doesn't do it.

Awesome

scanner makes me rewrite most of the text. i've been trying to scan my text book and i spent 2.5 hours just to scan a chapter ... had to fix so many errors from the OCR I want my money back.

The app works fine after a reboot of the phone.

Was using the Mac version before I discovered they had an iPhone app that worked just as good.

As long as you're only scanning text in a regular alphabet, it does well. If you scan ANYTHING with symbols, be sure to exclude those symbols first.

I really like the functionality of this app. It's got best-in-class scanning functionality and even has hand-off support between devices! However, after using this app for over a year, I have yet to see creaceed add in split-screen and iCloud Drive support. I can't save .pzdoc files out to iCloud Drive or other storage providers, and then open them in place. I also can't open this app up next to other apps. I hope they add this functionality in soon. If they had this functionality, my review would be 5 stars

I have been using it for OCR and is excellent. Editing is easy. Image improvement works fine. I fully recommend it.

Great idea. The OCR needs improvement before this is useable.

When traveling for business, I scan my receipts as soon as I get them on this app. They are all in one place and I print them out at the end of the month. Such a time saver!

Recently, I found myself needing to backup a bunch of artwork, notes, journals, and other texts. Instead of spending hours scanning the stuff on a flatbed scanner, I just used Prizmo and the results were great. Now, my important journal entries and documents are safely backed up in iCloud, and I can even improve the scan by using Prizmo on my Mac. I have even recommended it to some one who wanted to scan her family pictures quickly. I’ve had mixed results with OCR, but that’s perfectly understandable, and not the main reason I got this app, and have been getting every iteration for the past few years. Also, I can probably get more detailed scans with a flatbed, but when I think about it, I rather have copies of my photos, journals, and other irreplaceable things, than not having anything because scanning with other platforms is such a pain, and really great scanners are more than $1000.00

The app doesn't seem to be cleaning its app cache/temp files. I don't have any documents left in the app, but it's taking up over 180MB of data.

While the idea is a good one, the UI deviates from Apple standards and more importantly OCR is not very good. I scanned magazine articles with black text on white background. The OCR always tried to create odd shaped selections changing normal paragraphs into columns or simply getting garbage as the OCR text. It would take as long to just retype the articles as it would to correct the errors in OCR.

No idea what else is out there. But the scanning is mediocre. Lots of weird characters are created. Why not just create characters that pertain to the specified language? Worst is that none of the documents are searchable or even organizable within the app. There must be a better solution somewhere.

It's very good but a bit expansive. Also Camscanner has a lot more function than Prizmo.

These guys and girls know what they are doing...

Good overall but app keeps shutting down and won't reopen document. I am using this for my dyslexic son and when scanning, the text come out wrong and I have to correct it before it reads it to him which is a bummer because 1 dyslexic is hard enough but now I have 2 with this app.

I wanted an app that would let me snap a picture of a letter or other piece of mail and quickly read it aloud for me. This app does that.I haven't explored all the other functions, but this app amazingly lets me read my mail on my own. I have some other OCR apps, but Prizmo is the best.

App OCR scans have very high error rate; card scan is worse.

Don't ask this thing to scan anything in a table, because it won't. I tried scanning my W-2 and it came out a garbled mess. Same thing with a straight gridded table. Thought I'd leave this comment for anyone else looking to scan in this type of document. It does okay with straight text (like letters), but be prepared to do a lot of proofreading. Even typed in the most basic fonts (Arial) it makes a lot of errors, like "Cathedne" instead of "Catherine".

I bought this app thinking it would be great for scanning legal documents on the go. Keyword legal meaning I need signatures. Couldn't get it to work. It takes more time than scanning, is incredibly frustrating, oh yeah and I'm out ten bucks. Deleted the app immediately.

I scan the card, recognize and import contact but just stopped working. Need help

This is a really good program which I use for researching and daily work. It is real helpful for pulling off text from pictures taken by phone. Also some companies send me proposals which are images, so I have to manually retype the language on to a master quote, which is a pain. Funny thing, it frequently works better than the PC OCR programs. It has the ability to set up selected paragraphs, set up the proper flow for 2 and three column reports, and save images as an image. The only thing I would improve is to have the ability of setting up a template that would exclude extraneous header / footer data.

I just bought this app for my 11year old son who is dyslexic. So far, I absolutely love what I see. I would give it 5 stars if changing voices was more user friendly.

This app is total garbage. I downloaded it so I could convert books on my bookshelf into audiobooks. App makes so many mistakes during scanning that the audio is no longer representative of the text as it was written. Don't waste your money.

5+ stars for this app which does what so many of you take for granted — it reads AND understands printed text! Oh stop griping about what it doesn't do, or doesn't do well, and give them 5 stars🌟 for the incredible work they've done on this app! I just took a business card that I got today and was going to manually enter the contact information into my Contacts. Then I remembered the Prizmo app that I downloaded recently, and thought that I would give it a try. Prizmo successfully scanned and recognized all of the text on the card and then saved it in vCard format for import into my Contacts. This saved me some time now, but I am looking forward to it saving me even more time AND effort in the future! With the help of Prizmo, the possibilities for saving time and effort are endless. I highly recommend that you try this app. One thing to keep in mind is that it does have a little bit of a learning curve, so you will need to take some time to learn it, but once you do you will be glad you did. 😃

I love it so much, I screenshot my iPhone and it takes the text from the image and makes it into its own piece of text that I can use to study. Screenshot ring Powerpoints and such. It's just amazing, love it!

I have tried a number of OCR apps over the years. This one is at the top for accuracy. I photographed a six page scientific paper with my iPhone and reviewed it on the iPad. The results were excellent, about one error per page.

I very rarely write reviews, but this is an amazing app -- absolutely one of my essentials. I've had it for several months and use it all the time. Obviously no OCR app can be 100% accurate all the time, but Prizmo comes pretty close. I was searching for an accurate OCR app that allows you to open PDFs from other apps -- not just for the camera or photos. I can't recommend this app enough. Also, I've now checked out some of the other apps of this developer -- they have some amazing stuff.

To describe this app in one word, Garbage. The scanning is useless on anything but nearly black and white text. Even then it only recognizes about 50% of the business card fields. Inverting the image was needed to get to 50% OCR on a black and grey card with white text. What a waste of money. Only brightside is that is made me use Evernote's Scanable again to prove the Prizmo OCR is garbage. Scanable OCR'd 100% on the same cards and I learned Scanable can now add info to Contacts so I guess that is a redeeming quality of sorts.