Prizmo is a character recognition application that has been on macOS for more than 9 years. In the coming weeks, the new version of Prizmo, focusing on the character recognition engine as the main novelty. In addition, the application does not rewrite the extracted text, but it is able to understand what is written to translate it into text format and work with it.
But this is not the only novelty that we will see in this update. Up to 18 new languages have been added to the Prizmo 3.5 versionTherefore, this can become the main OCR application of macOS.
And is that Prizmo uses a neural network first created by Hewlett Packard in 1980 and since then it has been catching up with the technological improvements that Google has. If you want to have more information about the OCR engine, you can find it in the following link.
In the tests carried out, the OCR engine correctly recognizes text when it comes to scanned documentation. But also, spectacular results are detected, even when trying to capture text from a photo made on the document.
Prizmo is available in two versions. The first one can be found for € 54,99. It is not cheap, but if your job depends on extracting information from documents, you will appreciate the time you save with this application.
We also have an advanced version, which involves an additional outlay of € 28,99. For this price, we can extract text in up to 22 languages and the possibility of translating the text from the Prizmo servers, without having to send information to external servers, a fact that companies that need to take care of the protection of their customers' data, will be grateful to avoid future problems.
Prizmo is optimized for macOS High Sierra, that means it recognizes the San Francisco font that Apple incorporated in this new version.
We can test Prizmo for free with the trial version or take advantage of the fact that the application is in Setapp, where we can access it from € 14,99 per month along with an important set of applications.