PhotoScan by Google Photos
Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-04 |  | | It's a bit tricky to get the original copied and in focus but with patience it's possible. Unfortunately, there apparently is no adjustment for color or tone. When the original has warm tones, the copy comes out in cooler tones. I looked for but could not locate any adjustment controls nor any explanation for this issue. |
| 2024-10-09 |  | | There needs to be an actually easy way to quickly take a photo of another photo. I don't need every single photo. I take a picture of to have museum quality. I don't need to go over every corner of every image of everything I ever take ever to take a picture of a photo. Some photos. It would be nice to have this option so you would have a higher quality image, but other photos. This takes an unnecessary amount of time to get an unnecessarily high quality image of something to simply share it |
| 2024-08-19 |  | | Not always clear (the lens is clean and no scratches) and taking 4 different shots is time consuming. All other apps just scan. Why can't this app? Plus this app can't find the edges of the photo on a plain surface which is also frustrating! And if you don't hold your phone exactly straight you'll get a wonky picture. I know that you're better than that Google! |
| 2024-07-31 |  | | This is a great little app that takes flawless document scans every time. The one thing I find amusing is lining up the white dot with the four corner dots - it's like a challenging video game - and you better be good at hand-eye coordination! But darn if that thing doesn't come out great no matter how messed up my attempt is! Definitely a good tool in the kit. |
| 2024-03-25 |  | | Maybe it's a quirk of my phone, but I always have a HUGE amount of glare in every single scan. The results are 100% useless. Also, the step where you have to "move" something to four circles seems as unnecessary as it is cumbersome. It doesn't appear to serve any purpose at all. This was the only free scanning app I could find that doesn't demand access to info it couldn't possibly need. I'll be sticking with my laptop and scanner. |
| 2024-01-09 |  | | I have been using this app for years to save stray physical photos. I have had no issues finding my photos in my gallery or "files". The best part, no flash-point. The app has you takes pictures at each corner of the photo and it adds them together for a glare free upload equivalent to any other photocopier. There may be better apps, but I haven't found them yet. If you doubt my review, I used to develope your 1 hour film. |
| 2024-01-02 |  | | Seems to work just fine for me. The scanned photos are uploaded to my Google Photos automatically and there is no watermark, unlike one reviewer claimed. I like the way it not only removes any glare, but it also crops and straightens and squares up the photo for me, so I don't even have to make sure it is perfectly aligned during scan. I am using a Pixel 8 phone and Windows computer. |
| 2023-08-07 |  | | Excellent for photo album pictures. If you need the best conversion of physical photos to digital, use a flatbed scanner. But if your photos cannot be easily removed from an album, this app is amazing. I've gotten best results using flash and holding the camera in landscape orientation. For portrait photos, hold the picture sideways. The app will often identify the correct orientation and crop it automatically. If not there are manual controls. Flash reflections will be eliminiated. |
| 2023-06-14 |  | | Its a basic, very simple fundamental app for scanning hard copy photos and that's all the description ever said it would be. It gets the job done if that's all you neef. I don't require an app with much more but the 2 thing I'd love to see is a "Add Caption" box to the individual photos. Just freeform text again simplistic would work just so I don't have to scramble for the hard copy to read notes on back of photos. I could scan the photo , Add Caption , or not , and save. |
| 2023-06-01 |  | | On the one hand it did a great job at removing the glare. That is the only positive. The other hand: discoloration, skewed perspective, blurry. The reason being it takes the initial image in focus with flash (if enabled) then has you move to 4 points and takes further images creating a composite. It does not trigger the flash, nor does it wait for the camera to refocus, when it takes the other images for the compositing. The result is a composite of one clear image and 3 out of focus. |
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