Prizmo 5 (Volume Ed.)

Reactivation of the camera stabilization mode for iPhone 15 devices (workaround for abnormal device-specific camera preview freezing).

Prizmo 5.8 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 text reader. You can now use your own voice after setting it up in iOS settings.
- Shortcuts integration: major update of Prizmo's Shortcuts actions with the latest OS features and by adding app shortcuts. You can now automate Prizmo workflows with finer control and better overall OS & other apps interactions.
- Refined photos and calendar permissions for enhanced privacy.
- Optimized for iOS 17.

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

Fixed a bug where the camera preview could freeze on iPhone 15 devices.

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]

- Fixed a bug where selecting a Live Photo in the photos picker could fail.
- Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur with multi-column layouts + improved parsing of hyphen-terminated text lines.


## More information about Prizmo 5.6 ##

Prizmo 5.6 is an important update that brings major improvements to text processing (OCR), interactions to manipulate documents and pages, as well as optimization for iOS 16 & important bug fixes.

Prizmo is the ultimate pro scanning app for iPhone & iPad with a simple workflow, powerful editing tools including OCR and pencil annotation, and fully controllable PDF generation & cloud export.


TEXT PROCESSING / OCR

- 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.


STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS & CONTEXUAL MENUS

For both the documents browser and pages editor:
- Use of contextual menus for the available actions for documents and pages.
- Touch and hold an item to enter in multiple selection has been replaced by a dedicated button. It now also supports the iOS interaction that allows to select multiple items by dragging two fingers over the items you want to select.
- On iPadOS, you can select multiple items using the keyboard and trackpad.
- Like on the iPad before, drag & drop to other apps is now available on the iPhone (requires iOS 15 or later).


PAGE LIST EDITING

- By using touch and hold, you can now reorder pages directly without going in edit mode first.
- You can now duplicate the selected pages.
- By using the contextual menu, you can insert new pages after a selected page.


OTHER ENHANCEMENTS + iOS 16

- 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.
- Use of contextual menus with modern iOS style all over the app.
- In the page editor, when sharing a page, all formats (JPEG, PDF, etc.) are now available.
- Use of iOS modern bottom sheet style (iOS 16 only).
- Text-to-speech: added support for new "Premium" quality voices of iOS 16.
- Predictive keyboard has been enabled when editing a document filename.
- Improved display of the recognized text for right-to-left languages.
- Fixed a bug where page thumbnails could be truncated in the pages sidebar on the iPad.


Prizmo now requires iOS 14 or higher.

(5.5.1 Update: Fixed a bug where the mirrored screen using AirPlay was freezed)

Prizmo 5.5 is an important update that brings document annotation with pencil or finger, dithering processing for black and white images, compatibility with iOS 15 & important bug fixes.

ANNOTATION & MARKUP
• Powerful annotation engine that works with Apple Pencil, capacitive pencils or finger.
• Annotate papers, fill out forms, or sign documents.
• Markup is stored in editable form (can be updated or even removed at any time).
• Markup is compatible with iOS and iPadOS. It requires iOS 14 or later.

DITHERED BLACK&WHITE EXPORTS
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).

ENHANCEMENTS
• Full compatibility and enhancements with iOS 15 including transparent navigation bars and inset grouped table views.
• More compact page navigation buttons / information.

BUG FIXES
• Fixed an OCR bug that could misplace words and/or create overlapping text regions on iOS 15.
• Fixed artefacts that could appear on page borders after cropping a page that uses color cleanup.
• Fixed errouneous page overlay in the camera view that could be misaligned on some iPad devices.
• Fixed animation glitches when rotating pages.

Prizmo now requires iOS 13 or later.

Prizmo 5.5 is an important update that brings document annotation with pencil or finger, dithering processing for black and white images, compatibility with iOS 15 & important bug fixes.

ANNOTATION & MARKUP
• Powerful annotation engine that works with Apple Pencil, capacitive pencils or finger.
• Annotate papers, fill out forms, or sign documents.
• Markup is stored in editable form (can be updated or even removed at any time).
• Markup is compatible with iOS and iPadOS. It requires iOS 14 or later.

DITHERED BLACK&WHITE EXPORTS
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).

ENHANCEMENTS
• Full compatibility and enhancements with iOS 15 including transparent navigation bars and inset grouped table views.
• More compact page navigation buttons / information.

BUG FIXES
• Fixed an OCR bug that could misplace words and/or create overlapping text regions on iOS 15.
• Fixed artefacts that could appear on page borders after cropping a page that uses color cleanup.
• Fixed errouneous page overlay in the camera view that could be misaligned on some iPad devices.
• Fixed animation glitches when rotating pages.

Prizmo now requires iOS 13 or later.

Fixed a performance issue when saving Prizmo documents on iOS 14 that could cause the app to freeze for a long period of time.

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

- Fixed a bug where Prizmo could fail to parse business cards with background processing.
- Fixed a bug where the list of Smart Actions was not always up-to-date.
- Fixed a typo in Danish.

• Modernization for latest OS & bug fixes

NEW FEATURES
- Added curved contents flattening option in the batch editor.

BUG FIXES
- Modified keyboard shortcuts (now CMD-CTRL+left/right) to switch pages to prevent conflict with text editing.
- Fixed a bug where the crop frame of a page created from a PDF document could be corrupted when changing the page format.
- Fixed a bug where the "Process in Prizmo" extension would fail in Mail (iOS 13).
- Fixed a bug where the scroll bars could be mispositioned in the page editor.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when exporting a large Word document (DOCX).