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Prizmo Changelog

What's new in Prizmo 4.6.1

Jan 17, 2024
  • Fixed a bug where the user interface could be corrupted when scanning a document on macOS Sonoma.
  • Fixed a bug where the cursor did not appear when editing text on macOS Ventura and earlier.

New in Prizmo 4.6 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • Optimized for macOS Sonoma.
  • Added Vietnamese and Thai support for on-device OCR.
  • Fixed a crash affecting OCR on documents with an intricate layout.
  • Prizmo now requires macOS 10.15 or later to run.

New in Prizmo 4.5.1 (Mar 26, 2023)

  • The recently upgraded color/gray cleanup technique has been further tuned for handling photos of documents that are not perfectly centered in the field of view (that would degrade cleaning capabilities). This also improves black & white PDF exports with image regions. [thank you Sophie L. from Cœur à Corps for the feedback]

New in Prizmo 4.5 (Mar 2, 2023)

  • New languages: added support for 4 new OCR languages with high accuracy: Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Russian. (macOS Ventura required)
  • Document cleanup upgrade: improved color and gray cleanup, resulting in clearer and more accurate outputs. (macOS Ventura and Apple Silicon required)

New in Prizmo 4.4.3 (Jan 10, 2023)

  • Fixed an issue where OCR results were discarded when opening documents processed by the Cloud OCR on iOS.
  • Camera tethering has been disabled because of a reliability issue with recent versions of macOS.

New in Prizmo 4.4.2 (Dec 5, 2022)

  • Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur with multi-column layouts + improved parsing of hyphen-terminated text lines.

New in Prizmo 4.4.1 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Fixed a crash that happened when editing documents on macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14.

New in Prizmo 4.4 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Major overhaul of text layout understanding for the OCR engine. Document layout parsing (OCR post-processing) has been upgraded for better text block & column generation. Recognized text blocks now better represent the original document intent for all supported OCRs.
  • Optimized for macOS Ventura.

New in Prizmo 4.3.1 (Nov 19, 2021)

  • Fixed a crash that happened when editing documents on macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14.

New in Prizmo 4.3 (Nov 17, 2021)

  • Prizmo 4.3 brings dithering processing for black and white images in PDF exports, compatibility with macOS Monterey & various bug fixes and improvements.
  • Prizmo now makes use of dithering (image regions) when exporting to black & white PDF, such that the density of black dots in the new image approximates the average gray-level in the original picture. This improves the overall quality of exported PDF, while preserving a small file size (ideal for archiving).

New in Prizmo 4.2.2 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug where Prizmo would display a black page when created from a TIFF picture.
  • Fixed a bug where scanned images could have an excessive size on disk in some cases.

New in Prizmo 4.2.1 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Re-added image-only PDF export which was removed in the previous update.
  • Fixed a bug where OCR regions could be misplaced when processing some PDF files as input.
  • Fixed a performance issue when saving Prizmo documents on macOS 11.3+ that could cause the app to freeze for a long period of time.

New in Prizmo 4.2 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Prizmo 4.2 is an important update that brings support for Apple OCR, features new image enhancements and rich export options. Apple OCR provides superior accuracy & performance. Improved image enhancements: orientation detection, page detection, edge repair, document flattening. Advanced PDF options: customizable JPEG quality, CCITT G4, JBIG2 to generate small files. And many other features.
  • Prizmo 4.2 requires macOS 10.13+.
  • Prizmo 4.2 brings support for Apple OCR (macOS 10.15 required). Apple OCR provides superior accuracy & performance. macOS 10.15 supports English and macOS 11 totals 8 languages (English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). Other languages (28 in total) are still processed with the alternative high-performance on-device OCR with machine learning.
  • Added the ability to disable the OCR for specific pages.
  • Fine-grained OCR text polarity detection that allows to automatically detect text contents with different contrasts in a same page.
  • Improved image pre-processing for more accurate OCR results.
  • Prizmo 4.2 brings an improved regions reordering workflow that allows to automatically guess the regions order based on the layout or to partially reorder some regions.
  • The text editor doesn't display anymore image regions but text-only regions for better clarity.
  • Improved handling of defaults settings applied to new pages (Go to “Preferences > Advanced”). These settings apply to new documents. Existing documents replicate other page settings when adding new pages. There are also new available settings like Page Detection, Repair Edges, and Flatten Curved Contents.
  • New State-of-the-art page detection.
  • New CoreML-based document orientation detection.
  • Added an option to automatically repair page edges and flatten curved contents.
  • New efficient compression formats (CCITT G4, JBIG2) for pages with black & white cleanup to generate small size PDFs.
  • OCR is now performed automatically when needed when exporting to a text based format.
  • Export user interface has been improved with a more granular progress and better default filenames.
  • Prizmo document now uses the same model as on iOS so everything is preserved when editing the same document on both platforms.
  • You can now edit text pages and business card pages in the same document.

New in Prizmo 4.1 (Dec 9, 2020)

  • This update brings full compatibility for macOS 11 Big Sur and support for Apple Silicon Macs.
  • Remodeled the app icon.
  • Modern style for the window toolbar.
  • Many user interface tweaks.
  • Fixed a bug causing the Automator action to fail.
  • Fixed a bug where Action Extensions failed on activation.
  • Prizmo has been rebuilt to take advantage of Apple Silicon CPU & GPU capabilities, and to deliver optimal performance in image processing, OCR, and more.
  • Fixed a bug where some buttons were not clickable in the Action Extensions.
  • Prizmo now requires macOS 10.12 Sierra or higher.

New in Prizmo 4.0.4 (Jul 15, 2020)

  • New business card editor that now brings feature parity with the iOS version of Prizmo.
  • Fixed a bug where Prizmo could freeze when opening a business card document on macOS Catalina.

New in Prizmo 4.0.3 (Feb 24, 2020)

  • Fixed a bug where the crop frame of a page created from a PDF document could be corrupted when changing the page format.

New in Prizmo 4.0.2 (Jan 3, 2020)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when recognizing text.

New in Prizmo 4.0 (Dec 10, 2019)

  • Optimized for macOS Catalina.
  • Improved compatibility with documents created with the iOS version of Prizmo.
  • Added support for 3 new OCR languages: simplified & traditional Chinese, and Japanese.
  • Fixed a bug where business card documents were always marked as unsaved after being edited.
  • Application is now notarized for a better support on macOS Catalina.

New in Prizmo 3.7.2 (Jul 22, 2019)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when moving or resizing a text region.
  • Fixed a crash when using the Snap Screen tool when multiple displays are attached to the Mac.
  • Fixed the page cropping user interface that could become corrupt when selecting another page.

New in Prizmo 3.7 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • Added support for text recognition in Arabic and Hebrew.
  • Improved contrast of the toolbar buttons on macOS Mojave.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an excessive memory consumption when opening several documents or using the Snap Screen tool.
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent the copying and pasting of document pages from the sidebar on macOS Mojave.
  • Fixed an issue where navigating between document pages using the keyboard wouldn’t work properly.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when recognizing text.

New in Prizmo 3.6 (Oct 11, 2018)

  • macOS 10.14 Mojave Enhancements
  • Support for Continuity Camera: Prizmo now lets you use your iPhone like a direct capture device as an additional capture option. Just click the “Shoot with iPhone” button in a Prizmo document (or the + button), that will wake up your iPhone in camera mode, and the shot image will be automatically added to the Prizmo document. Continuity Camera requires macOS 10.14 and iOS 12, devices must be logged into the same iCloud account, and they should be on the same Wi-Fi network.
  • Improved handling of clipboard types, with support of more diverse image input types.
  • Other minor fixes and enhancements.

New in Prizmo 3.5.4 (Aug 16, 2018)

  • Improved accuracy of text recognition when using Prizmo's Snap Screen tool to extract text currently displayed on the screen.
  • Fixed a bug that caused layout issues in the recognized text view when switching the text's language from a non-latin to latin language.

New in Prizmo 3.5.3 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • Updated translation integration for future proofing.
  • Optimization & bug fixes.

New in Prizmo 3.5.2 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • Camera tethering is working again on macOS High Sierra. It had been previously disabled because of a reability issue with macOS 10.12.
  • Improved Screen Text Snapping feature to enable it on multi-display setup that don't have separate Spaces.
  • Improved default sizing and positioning of document windows.
  • Fixed "Preserve Line Breaks" behavior for text regions. Now these text regions also export correctly to PDF.
  • Updated text rendering quality in PDF output (hidden or visible text).
  • Updated the crash reports framework.

New in Prizmo 3.5.1 (Jun 19, 2018)

  • Camera tethering is working again on macOS High Sierra. It had been previously disabled because of a reability issue with macOS 10.12.
  • Improved Screen Text Snapping feature to enable it on multi-display setup that don't have separate Spaces.
  • Improved default sizing and positioning of document windows.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent the detection of application updates. If you are affected by this bug in a version older than 3.5.1, you need to re-download the latest version of Prizmo manually from our website (direct link: https://creaceed.com/downloads/prizmo3.zip).
  • Fixed 'Preserve Line Breaks' behavior for text regions. Now these text regions also export correctly to PDF.
  • Updated text rendering quality in PDF output (hidden or visible text).
  • Updated the crash reports framework.

New in Prizmo 3.5.0.1 (May 7, 2018)

  • Fixed the incorrect price of the Pro Pack upgrade displayed in the Preferences window.

New in Prizmo 3.5 (May 7, 2018)

  • New neural network OCR in 23 languages (13 new) that provides improved accuracy for degraded and low resolution documents. See supported languages below.
  • New future-proof OCR foundation for image preprocessing and document layout computations taking advantage of some modern features of Prizmo Go.
  • Added support for 18 new translation languages (total 59), and for improved neural network based translation (requires Pro Pack) in 22 languages. See language list below.
  • Optimized for macOS High Sierra.
  • Added support for duplicating the selected regions by holding down the Option key and dragging the regions.
  • Added support for copy/pasting OCR regions.
  • Added a menu item for the 'Preserve line breaks' command in the main menu.
  • New keyboard modifier keys for mouse actions for a coherent Mac experience.
  • Option key is now used for adjusting the zoom level, Command key for moving through the document (hand tool), and Shift key for freeform adjustment of the page crop frame (in cropping mode only).
  • Added support for sandboxing for all versions.
  • Changed editor font from Helvetica Neue to San Francisco.
  • Now using Swift for specific subsystems.
  • Fixed several issues (including word highlighting) when using text-to-speech on macOS High Sierra.
  • Font adjustment of some UI labels.
  • Fixed a major crash on macOS High Sierra where manipulating the text regions could crash WindowServer process (older GPU models).
  • Fixed a bug where the cleanup app extension could crash the host application when clicking on the cancel button.
  • Improved mouse dragging of text region (accuracy).
  • Fixed a bug where the textview didn't get the focus when selecting the menu command 'Edit Region Text'.
  • Fixed erratic document scrolling behavior when using the menu commands to move from one region to another.
  • Fixed a bug where modifying the text font in the preferences was not directly applied.
  • Fixed size of the save panel displayed when exporting batch processing result.
  • Fixed layout issues when using the tab bar on macOS 10.13.
  • Improved application localizations.
  • Neural Network OCR Languages (23): Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
  • Translation Languages (59): Afrikaans, Arabic, Bangla, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh.
  • Neural Network Translation Languages (22): Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

New in Prizmo 3.1.18 (May 9, 2017)

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent to launch the application or the Automator action on OS X Yosemite.

New in Prizmo 3.1.17 (Mar 13, 2017)

  • Updated the translation service for future proofing.

New in Prizmo 3.1.16 (Nov 28, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug that could degrade OCR performance when image resolution increase is activated.

New in Prizmo 3.1.15 (Nov 14, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause Prizmo to consume too much memory on macOS Sierra when batch-processing PDF files (Prizmo Pro).

New in Prizmo 3.1.14 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • Prizmo can now show a panel to change the scanner transfer mode when the scanned document cannot be accessed.
  • Fixed possible crashes that could occur when displaying processed images.

New in Prizmo 3.1.13 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • Prizmo can now reverse pages order, which can be useful if your scanner has a document feeder beginning with the last page.
  • Fixed a bug where a wrong DPI value could be set when importing PDF files.
  • Improved compatibility and stability with macOS Sierra.

New in Prizmo 3.1.12 (Sep 3, 2016)

  • Improved compatibility and stability with upcoming OS X release.

New in Prizmo 3.1.11 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when opening Prizmo while a business card document was opened.

New in Prizmo 3.1.10 (Jun 28, 2016)

  • Fixed the Norwegian localization for clean-up modes labels.
  • Fixed a crash when closing a document window in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when showing the About panel.

New in Prizmo 3.1.9 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug that could display a wrong value for the 'Prepare/Develop' button in the toolbar.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Prizmo 3.1.8 (Feb 11, 2016)

  • Fixed security vulnerability with auto-updating scheme (Sparkle).

New in Prizmo 3.1.7 (Feb 10, 2016)

  • Fixed a crash in business card documents when contact access was not allowed.

New in Prizmo 3.1.6 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Added new menu items in the Page menu: 'Select All Pages', 'Recognize All Pages', and 'Recognize Selected Pages'. These menus have keyboard shortcuts and should be particularly useful for Voice Over users.
  • Better readability when 'Increase Contrast' is enabled in OS X Accessibility Preferences (OS X El Capitan only). When enabled, the bottom toolbar uses high-contrast colors and larger font, and larger region number labels in the text editor.
  • Fixed the page curvature correction feature that would not work on El Capitan (no effect).
  • Fixed the appearance of the bottom toolbar when 'Increase Contrast' is enabled in OS X Accessibility Preferences.
  • Fixed a bug that could display a wrong value for the 'Prepare/Develop' button in the toolbar.
  • Fixed UI glitches when using the Snap Screen Text feature.

New in Prizmo 3.1.5 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Fixed a problem leading to a black image after clean-up (color or gray) on Macs running OS X El Capitan with Haswell or more recent CPU (workaround for AVX2 single precision LAPACK-related issue)

New in Prizmo 3.1.4 (Oct 12, 2015)

  • Fixes for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • Fixed Gatekeeper issues in OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

New in Prizmo 3.1.3 (Sep 16, 2015)

  • Workaround for "unavailable scanner" problem after first scan since OS X 10.10.3
  • Fixed crashes & usability issues for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

New in Prizmo 3.1.2 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • Fixed a rare crash linked to minimized document windows.

New in Prizmo 3.1 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • User feedback integration to fine-tune a number of features. Special thanks to Daniel, Dana, Richard, and Fred for their feedback and help to make a better Prizmo!
  • Ability to perform a cleanup in batch mode and in the Automator action (Daniel).
  • Restored the black cleanup mode of the previous Prizmo (Dana). There are now 4 cleanup choices [None, Black, Gray, Color] that you can choose from, with Black more suited to text (very high contrast), and Gray/Color more suited to mixed image and text documents.
  • Fixed PDF quality and dpi matching (Richard). Internal DPI estimate for a PDF document is now more accurate, depending on the included images.
  • Fixed PDF Crop Frame (Fred). Some PDF documents could have unusual crop frame that would not be correctly interpreted by Prizmo. They are now correctly handled.
  • Fixed a crash with popovers.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur while OCR'ing a business card.

New in Prizmo 3.0.1 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes & Enhancements:
  • Fixed network problems with translation service.
  • Update Russian and Italian localizations.
  • Fixed layout issues in Screen Snap feature.
  • Fixed progress indicator when translating.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt the toolbar.
  • Fixed bugs when editing the recognized text.
  • Fixed other minor UI glitches.

New in Prizmo 3.0 (Nov 14, 2014)

  • Major new release with native OS X Yosemite support:
  • Revamped user interface taking advantage of Yosemite's translucency and vibrancy.
  • Handoff to easily switch from editing Prizmo documents on one device to another, with Mac, iPhone, and iPad support.
  • Image Cleanup Extension: Prizmo image cropping and cleanup capabilities are now exposed globally to other apps as an image editing extension.
  • OCR Extension: Prizmo OCR capabilities are now made available throughout OS X, as an extension. Textual contents can be retrieved from any image in other apps that support extensions (image viewing action).
  • Support for third-party exports: Prizmo can now invoke third-party export options (cloud storage, email clients, social networks…) that have been installed on the system.
  • Improved Image Processing:
  • Better image cleanup: Will now keep all image details while also improving text quality, including a better color accuracy when color cleanup is chosen. Better user control for output (brightness and contrast).
  • Improved image preprocessing for OCR, thus leading to better OCR accuracy.
  • Other Improvements:
  • New icon, more similarity with iOS version
  • Better export workflow: export partial or whole document to any document type, and choose destination. Now includes third-party services (installed separately).
  • User interface shows document type and editing mode in the top toolbar for easier control.
  • Font of text editor can now be customized from Prizmo settings
  • Accessibility and VoiceOver support has been updated to take advantage of latest Yosemite capabilities.

New in Prizmo 2.1.3 (Mar 13, 2014)

  • New feature: Localized to Polish.
  • Improvement: Pages are now ordered by picture date when importing from a camera (first page is the oldest picture, last page is the newest picture).

New in Prizmo 2.1.2 (Feb 1, 2014)

  • Accessibility: easier selection in the text editor (each cell is made of 3 accessible elements: the cell, the settings button, the textview).
  • Accessibility: easier selection using VO-SPACE shortcut in the popover windows regarding translation, document type selection, OCR language selection, and document export.
  • Accessibility: messages now announce when Prizmo starts and completes translating text.
  • App Store version owners can now use creaceed.com version without limitation for faster updates (licensing is handled automatically).
  • Fixes for several bugs and crashes.

New in Prizmo 2.1.1 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • Fixed blocked interface that could occur when automatically processing scanned pages, just after scanning is performed. This option is typically enabled when using Prizmo with Voice Over.
  • Fixed installation of languages from the alternative OCR engine (hanged on OS X 10.7 and 10.8).
  • Better stability and smaller memory footprint when loading/displaying images.
  • Improved Portuguese localization.

New in Prizmo 2.1 (Oct 31, 2013)

  • Mavericks:
  • Prizmo is now fully compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Proper handling of background activity (App Nap on Mavericks), with OCR and export activities still happening when app is in the background
  • Improved workflow with new Automator version
  • Image browser (Media Library) is now the native Mavericks panel
  • Screen capture now works with multiple screens on Mavericks
  • Faster and more accurate page content rendering
  • Other New Features & Enhancements:
  • OCR: individual text regions can be marked to preserve line breaks, to preserve original document formatting
  • OCR: safety margin around text blocks for better character recognition near region borders (thanks CUK.ch for feedback).
  • Search/Replace panel that allows searching OCR'd text
  • Specific bi-level compression option for smaller PDF files (affects cleaned up documents only)
  • Decreased memory usage when OCR'ing large PDF documents
  • Prizmo can now reorder from all recto - all verso to interleaved order, useful if you don't have a duplex feeder.
  • Better determination of source document DPI
  • Pro Pack: Automator action now allows to merge (or not) inputs as single PDF output, as well as keeping original file name
  • Pro Pack: Prizmo can now export to Automator workflows (in addition to UNIX scripts and Apple Scripts)
  • Pro Pack: batch mode can now overwrite destination files (if needed), as well as add a suffix to the output file name
  • Pro Pack: better batch progress reporting, and faster cancelling
  • Corrections:
  • Tool popovers now show correct contents in all cases
  • Fix for some RAW image file formats that wouldn't import correctly (NEF, etc.)
  • Fixed a rare crashing issue that could occur when opening or closing a document
  • Other fixes (batch window on 10.9, zooming issues when changing page...)

New in Prizmo 2.0.8 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • Improved: document scanning workflow update, the scanner window remains open to allow scanning of multiple pages in a single session
  • Improved: better reporting of OCR processing with VoiceOver as a spoken percentage. This provides a better experience especially when processing multiple pages at once.
  • Improved: you can now move the cursor to the text editor with a keyboard shortcut, and also navigate through regions using the keyboard.
  • Improved: Prizmo now remembers the last used scanner or camera for faster workflow (avoids to choose it each time).
  • New: Document pages can be flagged individually
  • New: Option to choose Serif or Sans-Serif font in text editor
  • Fixed: More robust PDF export, especially for documents with many pages
  • Fixed: Corrected a crash that would happen when quickly switching from page to page (with large image)
  • Fixed: source PDF files that have a rotation tag are now correctly parsed and displayed.
  • Fixed: detected images are now correctly extracted after OCR in all cases (would sometimes show as empty)
  • Fixed: scanner operated in File Mode now reports correct DPI for JPEG and PNG image types.
  • Various smaller bug fixes and enhancements.

New in Prizmo 2.0.7 (May 23, 2013)

  • Prizmo has been localized into Czech and Norwegian
  • Prizmo document icons now reflect actual contents in Finder and iCloud windows
  • Better handling of iCloud document update (when updating a document that is open on the Mac from another device, iPhone, iPad, or another Mac)
  • Fixed various random crashes

New in Prizmo 2.0.6 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • New translation languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hmong Daw, Indonesian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Persian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
  • Bug fix: Automator action problems introduced in previous update have been corrected

New in Prizmo 2.0.5 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • New: Added Latin as supported OCR language. We are fully aware they had no typewriters at the time, but you know, some students could well need that Latin-scanning capability anyway.
  • New: Application fully localized in Italian.
  • New: New documents are now set to the last chosen document type (Text / Image / Business Card). This makes it easier to process several documents of the same type in a row.
  • Bug fix: editing of business card information now behaves correctly after affecting recognized text to a field (Mountain Lion only).
  • Bug fix: page numbering during OCR is now correctly reported.

New in Prizmo 2.0.4 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • Thai added as a new OCR language
  • Localized application to Portuguese
  • Bug fix: document sizing problem when changing resolution on PDF documents
  • Bug fix: block of text in exported PDF (regular) now include the last line of text in all situations
  • Bug fix: Evernote export problem that appeared with latest Evernote release 5.0.5

New in Prizmo 2.0.3 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem with multi-screen text grabbing: Prizmo OCR options now show up correctly when grabbing text from screen on Macs with multiple displays.
  • Fixed: scanning window is now accessible on second scan under Lion.

New in Prizmo 2.0.2 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • New: Page cleanup: page can be cleaned up (previously known as normalize) to remove uneven lighting or texture. Specific gray cleanup (maximize contrast) or color cleanup (preserve color information) can be chosen. Gray cleanup works well for document taken on the go, while color cleanup is appropriate for whiteboard images written with color pens. Cleanup can now also be activated automatically from the advanced preferences for camera images.
  • Page thumbnails are now preserved as part of the document for faster document opening.
  • Screen grabbing formatting option: you can now decide to preserve line breaks (for source code for instance), or instead to make a continuous text
  • Screen grabbing now automatically recognizes negative input images (bright text on dark background). Ideal to get code from WWDC slides.
  • Default export type is now PDF for text documents, and preserved for the next export.
  • Export services can now be removed from the export palette in Prizmo preferences if not needed.
  • Pro Pack only: In Automator, Prizmo action can now use Automator variables for output file name.
  • Fix: Scanner feeder handling improvements. Scanned pages order is now preserved.
  • Fix: Fixed text editor bug: non-Roman text editing is now possible.
  • Fix: Multipage TIFF files are now properly handled.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash that could happen when grabbing screen.
  • Fix: Other minor UI improvement and fixes.

New in Prizmo 2.0.1 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • Evernote support is now made directly through the Evernote app itself. This provides more options to directly edit the created notes. Compatible with the latest Evernote version (version 5), as well as previous versions.
  • Better image caching: better memory usage after closing large documents
  • Fix: workaround for scanner access problem happening only in OS X 10.7.5
  • Fix: more robust perspective straightening for difficult cases

New in Prizmo 1.5.8 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Image settings are now resetted when a new image is imported
  • Fixed empty preview bug for custom extraction frame

New in Prizmo 1.5.7 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • Updated for Lion: fixed import from scanner problem
  • Updated for Lion: fixed import from camera problem
  • Updated for Lion: resizing/maximizing for main window
  • Updated for Lion: Half-tethering for connected camera
  • Added paste image capability
  • Fixed OCR regions display bug

New in Prizmo 1.5.5 (May 14, 2011)

  • Integrated iMedia 2 for a better image browsing experience
  • Open With... Finder command now works with Prizmo
  • Display of progress indicator while enumerating iPhone photos
  • Added visual notification when performing OCR multiple times
  • Fixed: Initial crossing frame bug
  • Fixed calibration upload problem
  • Fixed OCR Results Window positioning bug

New in Prizmo 1.5.4 (Nov 3, 2010)

  • Italian Localization: user interface
  • Swedish Localization: user interface
  • Improved Dutch Localization

New in Prizmo 1.5.3 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • Portuguese Localization: user interface
  • Danish Localization: user interface
  • Norwegian Localization: user interface

New in Prizmo 1.5.2 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • Spanish Localization: user interface
  • Improved automatic sizing of grid

New in Prizmo 1.5.1 (May 3, 2010)

  • Dutch Localization: user interface.

New in Prizmo 1.5 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • New: Camera Tethering:
  • Full Thetering: Prizmo can now take a picture when the camera is plugged (USB)
  • Half Thetering: If you take a picture when the camera (or iPhone) is connected, Prizmo imports it automatically
  • New: Page curl/curvature handling
  • New: Support for PDF documents (even multi-page PDFs)
  • New: "Save over" option
  • New camera content browser on Snow Leopard
  • Improved interaction with network scanners
  • Improved OCR result previewing
  • User interface enhancements (flip, reset distortion buttons...)
  • Many small enhancements and bug fixes

New in Prizmo 1.2 (Nov 12, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard only: Image acquisition from connected scanner.
  • Fixed bug: OCR now working on case-sensitive filesystem.

New in Prizmo 1.1 (Sep 15, 2009)

  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility
  • OCR: Highly Accurate OCR Engine with Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian)
  • OCR: In-place Display of Recognized Text Blocks inside Input Images
  • OCR: Text Skimming on Recognized Text Blocks (previewing OCR results)
  • OCR: Export of formatted output (RTF, PDF)
  • OCR: Export of Image with Hidden Text (Spotlight Indexable) as PDF
  • OCR: Selective Copy/Paste of Text Blocks
  • OCR: Adjustable, Interactive Binarization for Optimal Results even on Degraded Content
  • Image Processing: Eyedrop Tool for Page Background Determination
  • Image Processing: New option for inverting image (for working with light text on dark background)
  • Extraction Options: Easier setup of the extraction grid
  • Extraction Options: Automatic sizing of the grid based on its position inside the image
  • Fixed: Crashes when manipulating the grid
  • Fixed: Several other minor bugs

New in Prizmo 1.0.1 (Apr 27, 2009)

  • Fixed asymmetric distortion problem for elongated images.
  • Fixed drag and drop problem from camera browser to calibration assistant.