Integrating prizmo go

Actions - Help & Questions
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I’m trying to set up a keyboard button to fire up Prizmo Go, recognise some text, then return to Drafts 5 and paste the text it captured back in.

I thought this would just be a callback URL action step, so I added this;

prizmogo://x-callback-url/captureText? input=camera&ocr=en&destination=callback&validate=true

which should return the parameter ‘text’ containing the OCR’ed text.

I left the settings for Drafts to manage callback URLs.

When I invoke this, however, drafts just emits an error noise and slides down a red notice saying ‘Prizmo Go’, which I believe is from the name of the action.

Any ideas where I’m going wrong here?

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You have a space in the URL scheme above, is that in the one in Drafts too? If so that might be causing the error.

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You’re absolutely right, thank you @RosemaryOrchard - I can’t believe I missed that.

In a way, I can; I tried to copy-and-paste from PrizmoGo, where an example callback URL is provided; however, it’s not selectable, so I had to screenshot it, then feed it back into PrizmoGo, where I guess the space crept in. Some kind of lesson has been learnt here, I suppose!

So now this works as expected, how do I get the contents of a parameter in the callback and paste it at the cursor position? I guess that’s going to be some JavaScript, or is there a foolproof alternative?

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Woot! Glad it was a “simple” fix :wink:

I would suggest using the [[callback_result]] parameter as documented here, you need to make sure Wait for Response is enabled in your callback action, and then you can just use an Insert Text action step afterwards.

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This is magical! Thanks! I’ve had Prizmo on my phone for a while but never really had a way to integrate it with my usual workflow. Problem solved.

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Thanks again, @RosemaryOrchard - so the parameter is available in the “Insert Text” action, and a swift [[callback_parametername]] inserts it. I updated the Prizmo invocation to set the parameter name for the returned text to ‘prizmotext’ so it can be "Insert Text"ed as [[callback_prizmotext]].

The action is uploaded now, but assumes ① you’re OCRing in English, and ② capturing directly from the camera.

→ Insert from Prizmo Go

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This is fabulously useful — Thanks to everyone who pulled it together

8

Just came across this - extremely useful for taking notes out of print books. Thanks!

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