![]() Top of range from BBQGuru – BBQ Guru CyberQ Cloud.Another low tech budget choice – Pitmaster IQ120 BBQ Temperature Regulator Kit.The original bbq controller – DigiQ BBQ Temperature Controller ![]() 3 – Flame Boss 500 – WIFI Grill & Smoker Temperature Controller.Runner up – ThermoWorks Signals + Billows Best Overall – FireBoard 2 Drive + Blower The Best BBQ Temperature Controllers Reviewed.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. Slightly overcomplex and underdocumented workflow.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication. Prizmo is OCR reinvented for the mobile era, and, like many reinventions, it's a mixture of brilliant new ideas and details that aren't fully worked out yet. Prizmo comes in two versions, one for OS X, which is the one I tested, and another for the iPhone ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) and iPad, which I didn't test but which has the same basic capabilities. What makes Prizmo for OS X different is that it's designed from the start to work with cameras as well as scanners. If you connect an iPhone or iPad to your Mac by a USB cable, you can snap a picture and Prizmo will instantly capture it and try to extract text from it. If you connect any other camera to your Mac, it lets you browse through the photos in the camera's internal storage and select one or more pictures that you want to process with OCR. ![]() Prizmo includes an optional menubar icon that lets you select a block of text anywhere on screen-including images-and perform OCR on it, with the resulting text copied the clipboard for pasting into any application. And, of course, like traditional OCR software, it can take images directly from a scanner, using OS X's built-in scanner interface. Unlike our editor's choice FineReader Express, Prizmo connected to the scanner in my HP all-in-one printer even when my Mac was running wirelessly. FineReader only recognized the scanner when I connected the scanner to my Mac with a USB cable. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. I was slightly puzzled when I launched Prizmo because it required me either to open an existing Prizmo document from iCloud or my Mac, but of course I didn't have any Prizmo documents since I had never run it before. ![]() I finally figured out that I needed to click the "New Document" button at the foot of the window, which was also slightly puzzling since I didn't realize I was creating a document-I thought I was perform OCR on an image. But after I clicked that button, Prizmo showed me a spacious window with the message "Drop a Picture of Text Here" and three further options: "Open Image File.", "Import from Scanner or Camera." and "Browse Image Library." The first option works as you expect: select a PDF, PNG, JPG, or any other standard image format and open it in Prizmo's window. The second opens OS X's scanner dialog and lets you work from a scanner. Read Our ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac Review The third takes you to your iPhoto library and the Pictures folder in your user folder. When I snapped a picture with an iPhone plugged into my Mac, the picture instantly appeared in Prizmo's window. An optional preference automatically applied distortion correction to the image based on the geometry of the iPhone's camera lens. Toolbar icons let me rotate, crop, or make brightness and other adjustments to the image before clicking the OCR button. When I clicked that button, the color image changed from color to black and white, showing the black text that the program would now recognize when I clicked yet another button, this one marked Recognize.Īs you can guess from this report, there are plenty of underdocumented steps that you need to perform to get the best possible results, and we're not through yet. ![]()
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