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Prizmo: Beautiful OCR for iPhone

In my attempt of achieving the perfect paperless office, I tried a large number of OCR (optical character recognition) apps for Mac over time. For those of you not familiar with OCR, it’s a technology that scans any kind of document starting from a good-quality photo and extracts text from it. Text you can edit and save, no matter the language or characters used in the document. On the Mac, I settled with Prizmo, an amazingly powerful and good-looking app by Creaceed which can scan and organize your documents.

Last week Creaceed released the first iPhone version of Prizmo, which sports the same beautiful UI as the Mac counterpart and aims at becoming the ultimate OCR solution for iPhone users. I tested the app, and threw some documents in its database. Has the paperless office really gone mobile? Read more below to find out.

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Preview Your Designs with Review for iPhone

Review is an awesome new application from Kevin Kalle and Pieter Omvlee. With an awesome interface from Kevin Kalle and a great Mac companion application, it’s a must have for anyone designing for the iPhone platform. I myself design for the iPhone and up to this point I had been using a beta version of Pastebot. Review fits a spot that has long been needing an application to fill it.

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Push Your iPhone Towards the Air…And Use It As A Telescope

“There’s an app for that.”

I’m just going to say that there’s an accessory for that. There are hundreds of thousands of applications for the iPhone, but don’t understimate the avaiability of custom accessories for it. Just head over store.apple.com to see by yourself. Still, the cool & geek stuff reside in modders’ minds. Those very brave people who don’t care about limits and hardware limitations and create stuff like a Macbook Air under an Apple keyboard.

Now we have an iPhone 4 telescope.

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Filer: Elegant File Manager for iPhone and iPad

Getting files on the iPhone and iPad is some kind of a problem: unless you purchase an additional application in the App Store, there’s no easy way to get any file on iOS by default. Sure, you can email yourself some files and open them in Pages, Numbers - still you have to purchase the iWork apps and only documents can be opened in them. This is why GoodReader for iPad sold so well in the first weeks of April: there was no alternative. If you wanted stuff to land on the iPad, you had to buy GoodReader.

Now we have alternatives. I already reviewed Air Sharing HD, iFiles (the app I use every day) and explained how you can easily link your Mac’s Finder to iOS using a jailbroken iPad. Filer, previously known as Downloader, is a very nice looking and useful file viewer / document manager available both on iPhone and iPad as universal app.

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EpicWin: To-Do List With an RPG Spin. Reviewed.

I was really looking forward to the release of EpicWin for iPhone. Ever since it was first announced, I thought that it might be interesting to see whether an RPG-based productivity app could shake things a little bit in the App Store. Yes, the App Store is full of crappy “business” and “productivity” apps; on the other hand, there are some exceptional tools like OmniFocus and Things that lead the mobile GTD revolution.

Still, many people find these apps boring. They don’t get things done with them because they don’t feel motivated enough. You missed your daily review? You get a badge on the homescreen. And they don’t get things done.

EpicWin is meant for all those people who want to be productive but haven’t found the right iPhone app yet. By making your to-do list feel like a quest, can EpicWin really change the way we organize and complete our tasks?

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Dunk: A First Great Dribbble Client for iPhone

Dribbble is a website where designers can share previews of their latest creations. The most viewed submissions go to the home page, thus allowing the designer to get his name out there. It’s a pretty popular service to get feedback on early mockups of new websites and apps, but some says it’s pointless and dominated by “elitists”. As long as I can stay up to date with new apps coming out for iPhone and iPad, I don’t care.

The Dribbble staff understood that the next step would be that of opening an API and they did so. They came at a point where opening up to 3rd party developers would be absolutely necessary to get the Dribbble name out in the App Store. Because if you have an online service nowadays, you need to have mobile applications, too. Otherwise, you’re missing out. That’s what the experts say.

Actually, I think the idea of viewing Dribbble images on iPhone and iPad might work. I’m no designer and I have no reason to ask for an invite (yeah, it’s an invite-only website), but I enjoy browsing through screenshots of designers I respect and admire. From today on we’ll be taking a look at all the Dribbble clients coming out in the near future (trust me, there’ll be many of them) so let’s just start with Dunk by Robocat.

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