DECEMBER 2019 MACWORLD 67POINT AND AUTOSHOOT
Prizmo 5 (go.macworld.com/pzm5) does
this and much more, making it easy to
convert real-world books, documents, and
other paperwork into shareable PDFs,
images, or even Microsoft Word files using
only your iPhone or iPad. Single pages can
be captured and processed in as few as
three taps, with minimal effort required for
multi-page documents beyond manually
flipping pieces of paper.
In the background, captured
documents are processed using optical
character recognition, adding searchable
text to PDF files before automatically
uploading to your preferred cloud
service—iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive,
or WebDAV server (only one can be
configured at a time). Scanned documents
can be optionally synced via iCloud,
making them available on all your devices.
Search is available, but files are sorted by
most recent only, and there’s no way to
organize documents into folders.
A favorite feature is autoshoot, which is
toggled on or off when the camera is in
use to quickly detect page edges, then
immediately capture without having to
touch the screen. While pointing your
device, a blue overlay indicates edgesCapturing
documents
is a snap
with Prizmo
5, thanks to
autoshoot,
edge detection,
and image
stabilization for
sharp, high-
quality results.In addition
to capturing
documents,
Prizmo 5 also
allows importing
existing images
or files to
process using
fast on-device
OCR or the more
accurate cloud
variant (requires
subscription).