PRIZMO

Prizmo is an excellent OCR or Character Recognition app for iOs 8 devices. If you aren't sure what OCR or Character Recognition means, to put it simply, it will take a picture of text and have it read to you through your device.  It's really amazing and life changing for our students.  Now any text in the real world or in school is just a click away from being accessible.  Here's how it works! You take a picture of the text that needs to be read, the app scans it, and then reads it back to you.  You can also export it as EDITABLE text to another word processing app, like pages.  From there you can have it read to you or use the built-in dictation software, Siri, to add text or edit the piece.  Geoff Mortaley, our assistive technology advisor created this easy to follow video that demonstrates it's use!