After tapping the ‘Keep Scan’ button when you’re satisfied with the image you’ve captured, you can point your camera at another piece of paper and and tap the shutter button to scan it. With Prizmo, if you have a multi-page document to scan, you have two options. It’s not a horribly complicated procedure, but it does fail, and pointing my iPhone’s camera at a page and tapping a button is undeniably easier. Then, I need to make sure my pages aren’t stuck together, bent too much, or crooked in the paper feeder, all of which could jam the scanner or feed multiple pages through at one time. I need to open it up, unfold, and set the paper feeder for the paper size I want to scan and unfold the tray that collects scanned pages. In contrast, when I use my ScanSnap, the process is more involved. These are largely under-the-hood and workflow design changes, but they manage to simplify the scanning process by reducing the number of steps and adjustments necessary to create a good scan. Nor were those versions able to automatically rotate images based on machine learning. Previous versions of Prizmo could detect pages and suggest cropping, but they didn’t do so as well as version 5 in my experience or automatically as part of the capture workflow. Prizmo can also import images of documents from your Photos library and detect the page’s orientation using machine learning to auto-rotate the image.īoth the scanning process and the machine learning-based approach to auto-rotation are new to version 5 of Prizmo. The final step, if you’ve got no other pages to scan, is to tap ‘Done’ and save your scan. Tap the shutter button to take a photo of the page, and Prizmo opens a preview of the image where you can make adjustments to the page detection and rotate the image. When you point an iOS device’s camera at a page, Prizmo detects its edges, highlighting the entire sheet in blue. Prizmo, which has been around longer than Go, can convert document images to text too, but it’s also a full-featured scanning app.Ĭreaceed has been refining the scanning process for years, and with version 5 of Prizmo, it has reduced scanning to just three steps. Prizmo Go, which we’ve covered before, quickly captures text from images of documents that you can use in other apps.

There are lots of terrific apps on iOS to capture and organize scans, but Prizmo by Creaceed, which I’ve been testing for the past week, has quickly become one of my favorites, distinguishing itself with its ease of capture and terrific OCR functionality.Ĭreaceed makes two similarly-named apps that share some common features. Important bits of paper still come into my life now and then, but I’ve found that an iOS scanning app is more convenient for the volume of scanning I do now. If I need to look at an old credit card statement or bill, I can log into those accounts to find the information I need, so I tossed my scanner in a drawer. However, I realized recently that not only do I rarely need to refer back to those scanned documents, but most are already available in electronic form online. I’d OCR the scans, so they would be text searchable, and I used Hazel rules to organize them in folders automatically.

I used to scan paper documents and store them on my Mac. I own a ScanSnap S1300i scanner, but I’m not sure why anymore.

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