Prizmo Go (Volume Ed.)

Modernization for latest OS & bug fixes

Fixed a bug where the camera preview could stop working.

Prizmo Go 4.2 is an important update that brings major improvements for iOS 17, including new OCR languages, support for Personal Voice, and Shortcuts improvements.

NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added Vietnamese and Thai support for on-device OCR.
- Added support for Personal Voice(s) in Prizmo Go reader. You can now use your own voice after setting it up in iOS settings.
- Shortcuts integration: major update of Prizmo Go's Shortcuts actions with the latest OS features and by adding app shortcuts. You can now automate Prizmo Go workflows with finer control and better overall OS & other apps interactions. Prizmo Go's 'Grab Text' action takes advantage of iOS 17 extended run time and will now return the scanned text as a result to be consumed in the workflow (the previous behavior of "wait to return" is deprecated).
- Refined photos and calendar permissions for enhanced privacy.
- Optimized for iOS 17.

REQUIREMENTS
- Prizmo Go now requires iOS 15 or later to run. The most modern features require iOS 17.

Fixed a bug where the captured photo could become corrupt with a close-up shot using the ultra-wide lens on iOS 17.

Added support for 4 new on-device OCR languages with high accuracy: Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Russian. (iOS 16 required)

- Handling of close-up shot that could appear blurred on latest iPhone Pro models (13 Pro / 14 Pro) by automatically switching to the most appropriate lens.
- Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur with multi-column layouts + improved parsing of hyphen-terminated text lines.


## More information about Prizmo Go 4.0 ##

Prizmo Go 4.0 is an important update that brings major improvements to text processing (OCR), rich interactions, as well as optimization for iOS 16 & important bug fixes.

Prizmo Go is the reference app for effective text grabbing on iOS that will give you a significant upgrade over the built-in Live Text feature for when you need it, in terms of covered languages (28 vs. 8), recognition accuracy, text selection experience, and interaction/sharing capabilities.


TEXT PROCESSING / OCR

- Major overhaul of text layout understanding for the OCR engine. Text layout gets a new interpretation from raw OCR output for improving text selection.


RICH INTERACTIONS

- Detected datas like phone numbers, postal addresses, URLs, emails, QR codes are now directly highlighted over the image for immediate interaction by tapping.


OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

- Added a Lock Screen widget for quick access to Prizmo Go.
- Added support for text-to-speech new "Premium" quality voices of iOS 16.
- Use of contextual menus with modern iOS style all over the app.


Prizmo Go now requires iOS 14 or higher.

Prizmo Go 4.0 is an important update that brings major improvements to text processing (OCR), rich interactions, as well as optimization for iOS 16 & important bug fixes.

Prizmo Go is the reference app for effective text grabbing on iOS that will give you a significant upgrade over the built-in Live Text feature for when you need it, in terms of covered languages (28 vs. 8), recognition accuracy, text selection experience, and interaction/sharing capabilities.


TEXT PROCESSING / OCR

- Major overhaul of text layout understanding for the OCR engine. Text layout gets a new interpretation from raw OCR output for improving text selection.


RICH INTERACTIONS

- Detected datas like phone numbers, postal addresses, URLs, emails, QR codes are now directly highlighted over the image for immediate interaction by tapping.


OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

- Added a Lock Screen widget for quick access to Prizmo Go.
- Added support for text-to-speech new "Premium" quality voices of iOS 16.
- Use of contextual menus with modern iOS style all over the app.


Prizmo Go now requires iOS 14 or higher.

Prizmo Go 3.2 brings an all-new Shortcuts Action that now works in the background, support for multiple windows on iPadOS, enhancements for iOS 15 & important bug fixes.

SHORTCUTS ACTION
Prizmo Go now features an all-new Shortcuts Action to recognize the text of an input image that operates in the background. It means that you won't leave the Shortcuts app anymore when running. This new action requires iOS 14 or later. The pre-existing action remains available and allows manually grabbing some text from the image into the clipboard.

ENHANCEMENTS
• Improved multitasking capabilities by allowing the creation of multiple windows of Prizmo Go on iPadOS.
• Full compatibility and enhancements with iOS 15 including transparent navigation bars and inset grouped table views.

BUG FIXES
• Fixed erroneous page overlay in the camera view that could be misaligned on some iPad devices.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent editing the recognized text on iOS 15.

Prizmo Go now requires iOS 13 or later.

Fixed text layout issues that could occur when Apple OCR is used.

Fixed a crash at app launch on iOS 12.

- App icon can now be changed by user on the Volume Edition (tag removal).
- Updated some missing localizations in various languages.

Prizmo Go 3.1 is an important update that improves OCR processing.

- Apple OCR is now the default on-device OCR when the requested language is available. Apple OCR provides superior accuracy & performance on latest generation iPhone and iPad with machine learning capabilities.
- Apple OCR is updated to take advantage of iOS 14 latest OCR advances: better accuracy and language support beyond English now totalling 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.
- OCR selection is now exposed in "Settings > Advanced OCR Selection" and lets the user control which OCR engine is chosen when multiple options exist. This setting provides additional control for specific situations.
- Cloud OCR has been upgraded for better text recognition accuracy, both for print & handwriting.

- Improved handling of user privacy with support for photo albums security constraints of iOS 14.
- Fixed a bug where selecting a picture in Photos picker could fail on iOS 14.

Fixed an imaging subsystem crash that could randomly occur while shooting or editing.

- Added support for new iPhone (late 2020) screen sizes.
- Fixed a start-up crash that could occur in specific app installation situations.

• Modernization for latest OS & bug fixes

- Improved x-callback-url and Shortcuts Action handling by allowing to re-take the picture before returning to the calling application.
- added Capture Chime preference to enable/disable capture sounds (Settings ▸ Camera ▸ Capture Chime).
- Fixed a bug where the camera preview could stop working in some situations.
- Fixed glitches in the user interface for right-to-left languages.