Version 4.7 — Min. macOS 11.5

Optimized for macOS Sequoia. Support for Arabic with on-device OCR (Apple). Fixed a crash that could occur when applying color/gray cleanup to pages created from high-resolution pictures. Prizmo now requires macOS 11.5 or later to run.

Version 4.6.1 — Min. macOS 10.15

Fixed a bug where the user interface could be corrupted when scanning a document on macOS Sonoma. Fixed a bug where the cursor did not appear when editing text on macOS Ventura and earlier.

Version 4.6 — Min. macOS 10.15

Optimized for macOS Sonoma. Added Vietnamese and Thai support for on-device OCR. Fixed a crash affecting OCR on documents with an intricate layout. Prizmo now requires macOS 10.15 or later to run.

Version 4.5.1 — Min. macOS 10.13

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]

Version 4.5 — Min. macOS 10.13

New languages: added support for 4 new OCR languages with high accuracy: Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Russian. (macOS Ventura required) Document cleanup upgrade: improved color and gray cleanup, resulting in clearer and more accurate outputs. (macOS Ventura and Apple Silicon required)

Version 4.4.3 — Min. macOS 10.13

Fixed an issue where OCR results were discarded when opening documents processed by the Cloud OCR on iOS. Camera tethering has been disabled because of a reliability issue with recent versions of macOS.

Version 4.4.2 — Min. macOS 10.13

Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur with multi-column layouts + improved parsing of hyphen-terminated text lines.

Version 4.4.1 — Min. macOS 10.13

Fixed a crash that happened when editing documents on macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14.

Version 4.4 — Min. macOS 10.13

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. Optimized for macOS Ventura.

Version 4.3.1 — Min. macOS 10.13

Fixed a crash that happened when editing documents on macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14.

Version 4.3 — Min. macOS 10.13

Prizmo 4.3 brings dithering processing for black and white images in PDF exports, compatibility with macOS Monterey & various bug fixes and improvements. 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).

Version 4.2.2 — Min. macOS 10.13

Fixed a bug where Prizmo would display a black page when created from a TIFF picture. Fixed a bug where scanned images could have an excessive size on disk in some cases.

Version 4.2.1 — Min. macOS 10.13

Re-added image-only PDF export which was removed in the previous update. Fixed a bug where OCR regions could be misplaced when processing some PDF files as input. Fixed a performance issue when saving Prizmo documents on macOS 11.3+ that could cause the app to freeze for a long period of time.

Version 4.2 — Min. macOS 10.13

Prizmo 4.2 is an important update that brings support for Apple OCR, features new image enhancements and rich export options. Apple OCR provides superior accuracy & performance. Improved image enhancements: orientation detection, page detection, edge repair, document flattening. Advanced PDF options: customizable JPEG quality, CCITT G4, JBIG2 to generate small files. And many other features. Prizmo 4.2 requires macOS 10.13+. Prizmo 4.2 brings support for Apple OCR (macOS 10.15 required). Apple OCR provides superior accuracy & performance. macOS 10.15 supports English and macOS 11 totals 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. Added the ability to disable the OCR for specific pages. Fine-grained OCR text polarity detection that allows to automatically detect text contents with different contrasts in a same page. Improved image pre-processing for more accurate OCR results. Prizmo 4.2 brings an improved regions reordering workflow that allows to automatically guess the regions order based on the layout or to partially reorder some regions. The text editor doesn't display anymore image regions but text-only regions for better clarity. Improved handling of defaults settings applied to new pages (Go to “Preferences > Advanced”). These settings apply to new documents. Existing documents replicate other page settings when adding new pages. There are also new available settings like Page Detection, Repair Edges, and Flatten Curved Contents. New State-of-the-art page detection. New CoreML-based document orientation detection. Added an option to automatically repair page edges and flatten curved contents. New efficient compression formats (CCITT G4, JBIG2) for pages with black & white cleanup to generate small size PDFs. OCR is now performed automatically when needed when exporting to a text based format. Export user interface has been improved with a more granular progress and better default filenames. Prizmo document now uses the same model as on iOS so everything is preserved when editing the same document on both platforms. You can now edit text pages and business card pages in the same document.

Version 4.1 — Min. macOS 10.12

This update brings full compatibility for macOS 11 Big Sur and support for Apple Silicon Macs. Remodeled the app icon. Modern style for the window toolbar. Many user interface tweaks. Fixed a bug causing the Automator action to fail. Fixed a bug where Action Extensions failed on activation. Prizmo has been rebuilt to take advantage of Apple Silicon CPU & GPU capabilities, and to deliver optimal performance in image processing, OCR, and more. Fixed a bug where some buttons were not clickable in the Action Extensions. Prizmo now requires macOS 10.12 Sierra or higher.

Version 4.0.4 — Min. macOS 10.10

New business card editor that now brings feature parity with the iOS version of Prizmo. Fixed a bug where Prizmo could freeze when opening a business card document on macOS Catalina.

Version 4.0.3 — Min. macOS 10.10

Fixed a bug where the crop frame of a page created from a PDF document could be corrupted when changing the page format.

Version 4.0.2 — Min. macOS 10.10

Fixed a crash that could occur when recognizing text.

Version 4.0 — Min. macOS 10.10

Optimized for macOS Catalina. Improved compatibility with documents created with the iOS version of Prizmo. Added support for 3 new OCR languages: simplified & traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Fixed a bug where business card documents were always marked as unsaved after being edited. Application is now notarized for a better support on macOS Catalina.

Version 3.7.2

Fixed a crash that could occur when moving or resizing a text region. Fixed a crash when using the Snap Screen tool when multiple displays are attached to the Mac. Fixed the page cropping user interface that could become corrupt when selecting another page.

Version 3.7

Added support for text recognition in Arabic and Hebrew. Improved contrast of the toolbar buttons on macOS Mojave. Fixed a bug that could cause an excessive memory consumption when opening several documents or using the Snap Screen tool. Fixed a bug that would prevent the copying and pasting of document pages from the sidebar on macOS Mojave. Fixed an issue where navigating between document pages using the keyboard wouldn’t work properly. Fixed a crash that could occur when recognizing text.

Version 3.6

macOS 10.14 Mojave Enhancements Support for Continuity Camera: Prizmo now lets you use your iPhone like a direct capture device as an additional capture option. Just click the “Shoot with iPhone” button in a Prizmo document (or the + button), that will wake up your iPhone in camera mode, and the shot image will be automatically added to the Prizmo document. Continuity Camera requires macOS 10.14 and iOS 12, devices must be logged into the same iCloud account, and they should be on the same Wi-Fi network. Improved handling of clipboard types, with support of more diverse image input types. Other minor fixes and enhancements.

Version 3.5.4

Improved accuracy of text recognition when using Prizmo's Snap Screen tool to extract text currently displayed on the screen. Fixed a bug that caused layout issues in the recognized text view when switching the text's language from a non-latin to latin language.

Version 3.5.3

Updated translation integration for future proofing. Optimization & bug fixes.

Version 3.5.2

Fixed a bug causing localization issues.

Version 3.5.1

Camera tethering is working again on macOS High Sierra. It had been previously disabled because of a reability issue with macOS 10.12. Improved Screen Text Snapping feature to enable it on multi-display setup that don't have separate Spaces. Improved default sizing and positioning of document windows. Fixed a bug that could prevent the detection of application updates. If you are affected by this bug in a version older than 3.5.1, you need to re-download the latest version of Prizmo manually from our website (direct link: https://creaceed.com/downloads/prizmo3.zip). Fixed 'Preserve Line Breaks' behavior for text regions. Now these text regions also export correctly to PDF. Updated text rendering quality in PDF output (hidden or visible text). Updated the crash reports framework.

Version 3.5.0.1

Fixed the incorrect price of the Pro Pack upgrade displayed in the Preferences window.

Version 3.5

New neural network OCR in 23 languages (13 new) that provides improved accuracy for degraded and low resolution documents. See supported languages below. New future-proof OCR foundation for image preprocessing and document layout computations taking advantage of some modern features of Prizmo Go. Added support for 18 new translation languages (total 59), and for improved neural network based translation (requires Pro Pack) in 22 languages. See language list below. Optimized for macOS High Sierra. Added support for duplicating the selected regions by holding down the Option key and dragging the regions. Added support for copy/pasting OCR regions. Added a menu item for the 'Preserve line breaks' command in the main menu. New keyboard modifier keys for mouse actions for a coherent Mac experience. Option key is now used for adjusting the zoom level, Command key for moving through the document (hand tool), and Shift key for freeform adjustment of the page crop frame (in cropping mode only). Added support for sandboxing for all versions. Changed editor font from Helvetica Neue to San Francisco. Now using Swift for specific subsystems. Fixed several issues (including word highlighting) when using text-to-speech on macOS High Sierra. Font adjustment of some UI labels. Fixed a major crash on macOS High Sierra where manipulating the text regions could crash WindowServer process (older GPU models). Fixed a bug where the cleanup app extension could crash the host application when clicking on the cancel button. Improved mouse dragging of text region (accuracy). Fixed a bug where the textview didn't get the focus when selecting the menu command 'Edit Region Text'. Fixed erratic document scrolling behavior when using the menu commands to move from one region to another. Fixed a bug where modifying the text font in the preferences was not directly applied. Fixed size of the save panel displayed when exporting batch processing result. Fixed layout issues when using the tab bar on macOS 10.13. Improved application localizations. Neural Network OCR Languages (23): Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Translation Languages (59): Afrikaans, Arabic, Bangla, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh. Neural Network Translation Languages (22): Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Version 3.1.18

Fixed a bug that could prevent to launch the application or the Automator action on OS X Yosemite.

Version 3.1.17

Updated the translation service for future proofing.

Version 3.1.16

Fixed a bug that could degrade OCR performance when image resolution increase is activated.

Version 3.1.15

Fixed a bug that could cause Prizmo to consume too much memory on macOS Sierra when batch-processing PDF files (Prizmo Pro).

Version 3.1.14

Prizmo can now show a panel to change the scanner transfer mode when the scanned document cannot be accessed. Fixed possible crashes that could occur when displaying processed images.

Version 3.1.13

Prizmo can now reverse pages order, which can be useful if your scanner has a document feeder beginning with the last page. Fixed a bug where a wrong DPI value could be set when importing PDF files. Improved compatibility and stability with macOS Sierra.

Version 3.1.12

Improved compatibility and stability with upcoming OS X release.

Version 3.1.11

Fixed a crash that could occur when opening Prizmo while a business card document was opened.

Version 3.1.10

Fixed the Norwegian localization for clean-up modes labels. Fixed a crash when closing a document window in fullscreen mode. Fixed a crash that could occur when showing the About panel.

Version 3.1.9

Fixed a bug that could display a wrong value for the 'Prepare/Develop' button in the toolbar. Minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.8

Fixed security vulnerability with auto-updating scheme (Sparkle).

Version 3.1.7

Fixed a crash in business card documents when contact access was not allowed.

Version 3.1.6

Added new menu items in the Page menu: 'Select All Pages', 'Recognize All Pages', and 'Recognize Selected Pages'. These menus have keyboard shortcuts and should be particularly useful for Voice Over users. Better readability when 'Increase Contrast' is enabled in OS X Accessibility Preferences (OS X El Capitan only). When enabled, the bottom toolbar uses high-contrast colors and larger font, and larger region number labels in the text editor. Fixed the page curvature correction feature that would not work on El Capitan (no effect). Fixed the appearance of the bottom toolbar when 'Increase Contrast' is enabled in OS X Accessibility Preferences. Fixed a bug that could display a wrong value for the 'Prepare/Develop' button in the toolbar. Fixed UI glitches when using the Snap Screen Text feature.

Version 3.1.5

Fixed a problem leading to a black image after clean-up (color or gray) on Macs running OS X El Capitan with Haswell or more recent CPU (workraround for AVX2 single precision LAPACK-related issue)

Version 3.1.4

Fixes for OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Fixed Gatekeeper issues in OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Version 3.1.3

Workaround for 'unavailable scanner' problem after first scan since OS X 10.10.3 Fixed crashes & usability issues for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Version 3.1.2

Fixed a rare crash linked to minimized document windows.

Version 3.1.1

Localized to Spanish Default OCR language for new documents corresponds to the last one used. Exports can now be cancelled at any time. When exporting as PDF or text file, progress is now explicitly displayed. Fixed synchronized navigation between image and processed contents (Menu View > Synchronized Text/Image Navigation). Fixed a bug affecting region overlay becoming opaque in rare cases. Fixed a bug preventing selection of a voice in the Speech panel. Artifacts and blurry contents are now fixed when exporting as PDF or image file formats. Fixed an export bug that would fail to include images in RTFD documents.

Version 3.1

User feedback integration to fine-tune a number of features. Special thanks to Daniel, Dana, Richard, and Fred for their feedback and help to make a better Prizmo! Ability to perform a cleanup in batch mode and in the Automator action (Daniel). Restored the black cleanup mode of the previous Prizmo (Dana). There are now 4 cleanup choices [None, Black, Gray, Color] that you can choose from, with Black more suited to text (very high contrast), and Gray/Color more suited to mixed image and text documents. Fixed PDF quality and dpi matching (Richard). Internal DPI estimate for a PDF document is now more accurate, depending on the included images. Fixed PDF Crop Frame (Fred). Some PDF documents could have unusual crop frame that would not be correctly interpreted by Prizmo. They are now correctly handled. Fixed a crash with popovers. Fixed a crash that could occur while OCR'ing a business card.

Version 3.0.1

Fixed network problems with translation service. Update Russian & Italian localizations. Fixed layout issues in Screen Snap feature. Fixed progress indicator when translating. Fixed a bug that could corrupt the toolbar. Fixed bugs when editing the recognized text. Fixed other minor UI glitches.

Version 3.0

Major new release with native OS X Yosemite support Revamped user interface taking advantage of Yosemite's translucency and vibrancy. Handoff to easily switch from editing Prizmo documents on one device to another, with Mac, iPhone, and iPad support. Image Cleanup Extension: Prizmo image cropping and cleanup capabilities are now exposed globally to other apps as an image editing extension. OCR Extension: Prizmo OCR capabilities are now made available throughout OS X, as an extension. Textual contents can be retrieved from any image in other apps that support extensions (image viewing action). Support for third-party exports: Prizmo can now invoke third-party export options (cloud storage, email clients, social networks…) that have been installed on the system. Better image cleanup: Will now keep all image details while also improving text quality, including a better color accuracy when color cleanup is chosen. Better user control for output (brightness and contrast). Improved image preprocessing for OCR, thus leading to better OCR accuracy. New icon, more similarity with iOS version. Better export workflow: export partial or whole document to any document type, and choose destination. Now includes third-party services (installed separately). User interface shows document type and editing mode in the top toolbar for easier control. Font of text editor can now be customized from Prizmo settings. Accessibility and VoiceOver support has been updated to take advantage of latest Yosemite capabilities. Prizmo iCloud Drive Container access, for easier input/output interaction.

Version 2.1.3

Localized to Polish. Pages are now ordered by picture date when importing from a camera (first page is the oldest picture, last page is the newest picture).

Version 2.1.2

Accessibility: easier selection in the text editor (each cell is made of 3 accessible elements: the cell, the settings button, the textview). Accessibility: easier selection using VO-SPACE shortcut in the popover windows regarding translation, document type selection, OCR language selection, and document export. Accessibility: messages now announce when Prizmo starts and completes translating text. App Store version owners can now use creaceed.com version without limitation for faster updates (licensing is handled automatically). Fixes for several bugs and crashes.

Version 2.1.1

Fixed blocked interface that could occur when automatically processing scanned pages, just after scanning is performed. This option is typically enabled when using Prizmo with Voice Over. Better stability & smaller memory footprint when loading/displaying images. Improved Portuguese localization.

Version 2.1

Mavericks: Prizmo is now fully compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks Mavericks: Proper handling of background activity (App Nap on Mavericks), with OCR and export activities still happening when app is in the background Mavericks: Improved workflow with new Automator version Mavericks: Image browser (Media Library) is now the native Mavericks panel Mavericks: Screen capture now works with multiple screens on Mavericks+ Mavericks: Faster and more accurate page contents rendering OCR: individual text regions can be marked to preserve line breaks, to preserve original document formatting OCR: Safety margin around text blocks for better character recognition near region borders (thanks CUK.ch for feedback). Search/Replace panel that allows searching OCR'd text Specific bi-level compression option for smaller PDF files (affects cleaned up documents only) Decreased memory usage when OCR'ing large PDF documents Prizmo can now reorder from all recto - all verso to interleaved order, useful if you don't have a duplex feeder. Better determination of source document DPI Propack: Automator action now allows to merge (or not) inputs as single PDF output, as well as keeping original file name Propack: Prizmo can now export to Automator workflows (in addition to UNIX scripts and Apple Scripts) Propack: Batch mode can now overwrite destination files (if needed), as well as add a suffix to output file name Propack: Better batch progress reporting, and faster cancelling Corrections: Tool popovers now show correct contents in all cases Corrections: Fix for some RAW image file formats that wouldn't import correctly (NEF, etc.) Corrections: Fixed a rare crashing issue that could occur when opening or closing a document Corrections: Other fixes (batch window on 10.9, zooming issues when changing page, )

Version 2.0.8

Improved: document scanning workflow update, the scanner window remains open to allow scanning of multiple pages in a single session Improved: better reporting of OCR processing with VoiceOver as a spoken percentage. This provides a better experience especially when processing multiple pages at once. Improved: you can now move the cursor to the text editor with a keyboard shortcut, and also navigate through regions using the keyboard. Improved: Prizmo now remembers the last used scanner or camera for faster workflow (avoids to choose it each time). New: Document pages can be flagged individually New: Option to choose Serif or Sans-Serif font in text editor Fixed: More robust PDF export, especially for documents with many pages Fixed: Corrected a crash that would happen when quickly switching from page to page (with large image) Fixed: source PDF that have a rotation tag are now correctly parsed and displayed. Fixed: detected images are now correctly extracted after OCR in all cases. (would sometimes show as empty) Fixed: scanner operated in File Mode now reports correct DPI for JPEG and PNG image types. Various smaller bug fixes and enhancements.

Version 2.0.7

Prizmo has been localized to Czech and Norwegian Prizmo document icons now reflect actual contents in Finder and iCloud window Better handling of iCloud document update (when updating a document that is open on the Mac from another device, iPhone, iPad, or another Mac) Fixed various random crashes

Version 2.0.6

New translation languages: Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Korean, Slovak, Latvian, Slovenian, Haitian Creole, Lithuanian, Hebrew, Malay, Thai, Hmong Daw, Persian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Indonesian, Urdu (41 total) Bug fix: Automator action problems introduced in previous update have been corrected

Version 2.0.5

New: Added Latin as supported OCR language. We are fully aware they had no typewriters at the time, but you know, some students could well need that Latin-scanning capability anyway. New: Application fully localized in Italian. New: New documents now are now set to the last chosen document type (Text / Image / Business Card). This makes it easier to process documents of the same type in a row. Bug fix: editing of business card information now behaves correctly after affecting recognized text to a field (Mountain Lion only). Bug fix: page numbering during OCR are now correctly reported.

Version 2.0.4

New feature: Thai added as a new OCR language New feature: Localized application to Portuguese. Bug fix: document sizing problem when changing resolution on PDF documents. Bug fix: blocks of text in exported PDF (regular) now include the last line of text in all situations. Bug fix: Evernote export problem that appeared with latest Evernote release 5.0.5.

Version 2.0.3

Fixed a problem with multi-screen text grabbing: Prizmo OCR options now show up correctly when grabbing text from screen on Macs with multiple displays. Fixed: scanning window is now accessible on second scan under Lion.

Version 2.0.2

New: Evernote support is now made directly through the Evernote app itself. This provides more options to directly edit the created notes. Compatible with the latest Evernote version (version 5), as well as previous versions. New: Page cleanup: page can be cleaned up (previously known as normalize) to remove uneven lighting or texture. Specific gray cleanup (maximize contrast) or color cleanup (preserve color information) can be chosen. Gray cleanup works well for document taken on the go, while color cleanup is appropriate for whiteboard images written with color pens. Cleanup can now also be activated automatically from the advanced preferences for camera images. Better image caching: better memory usage after closing large documents Page thumbnails are now preserved as part of the document for faster document opening. Screen grabbing formatting option: you can now decide to preserve line breaks (for source code for instance), or instead to make a continuous text Screen grabbing now automatically recognizes negative input images (bright text on dark background). Ideal to get code from WWDC slides. Default export type is now PDF for text documents, and preserved for the next export. Export services can now be removed from the export palette in Prizmo preferences if not needed. Pro Pack only: In Automator, Prizmo action can now use Automator variables for output file name. Fix: Scanner feeder handling improvements. Scanned pages order is now preserved. Fix: Fixed text editor bug: non-Roman text editing is now possible. Fix: Multipage TIFF files are now properly handled. Fix: Fixed a crash that could happen when grabbing screen. Fix: Other minor UI improvement and fixes. Fix: workaround for scanner access problem happening only in OS X 10.7.5 Fix: more robust perspective straightening for difficult case

Version 2.0.1

Evernote support is now made directly through the Evernote app itself. This provides more option to directly edit the created notes. Compatible with the latest Evernote version (version 5), as well as previous versions. Better image caching: better memory usage after closing large documents Fix: workaround for scanner access problem happening only in OS X 10.7.5 Fix: more robust perspective straightening for difficult case

Version 2.0

Initial release