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In This Issue

A collection of iOS games for passing the time on a long flight, iPad keyboard shortcuts when tapping links in Safari, Ryan’s app wishes for 2020,plusWeekly Q&A, the answer to a CarPlay shortcut question from a Club member, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....

Prizmo 5: The Pro Scanner with Powerful Editing Tools for the iPhone and iPad [Sponsor]

Prizmo 5 is the premier solution for fast, streamlined scanning and powerful, accurate OCR on the iPhone and iPad. The app’s hallmark is the efficiency of its capture workflow, which is driven by an elegant and intuitive UI coupled with the latest iOS and iPadOS features.

Creaceed, the maker of Prizmo 5, has been refining the capture process for years, and with the latest update, they introduced auto-shoot, which detects pages as they are come into view of your iPhone or iPad’s camera and captures them automatically. Once scanned, the images, which use highly-efficient compression formats, can be quickly cleaned up with Prizmo’s suite of built-in tools to rotate, crop, and flatten a scan and adjust its brightness, color, and edges.

Prizmo offers both cloud-based and on-device OCR, turning the text of scanned documents into editable text that can be exported as a text-searchable PDF or even an editable Microsoft Word file. The app also supports business card scanning and processing, so you’ll never lose track of those new contacts you meet again.

Of course, Prizmo supports all the latest iOS and iPadOS technologies, too, including Shortcuts, iCloud, and iPad multitasking, plus exhaustive VoiceOver support with spoken guidance while scanning. There’s even a text reader that can read your scan aloud and batch editing support.

Prizmo 5 is free to download and try and is available through Apple’s Volume Purchasing Program for schools and enterprises. Best of all, for this week only, Prizmo 5’s Premium Pack is 20% off, making now a great time to get started with building a paper-free workflow.

Our thanks to Prizmo 5 for sponsoring MacStories this week.

In This Issue

Introducing the MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award, Flow, a shortcut for retrieving the release dates for albums on Apple Music, the search for the perfect USB-C hub or dock, an interview with Toolbox Pro developer Alex Hay, plus App Debuts, Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....

Interesting Links

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Interview: Alex Hay

Twitter: @mralexhay. Documentary editor and creator of Toolbox Pro. How would you describe Toolbox Pro in a sentence or two? It’s a digital Swiss-army knife, bundling some of the most powerful Apple frameworks into the drag-and-drop simplicity of Apple’s Shortcuts app, opening up brand new opportunities for automation on iOS and iPadOS. How did you...

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Introducing the MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award

For this year’s edition of the MacStories Selects Awards, we wanted to involve Club members by asking you to pick your favorite iOS or iPadOS app of 2019. The app doesn’t have to have been released this year, but it must be from a third-party developer. No Apple apps allowed. The button below leads to...