PhotoScan by Google Photos

Pretty decent overall. Edge detection: quite unreliable, but similar to camscanner/photomyne. Quality reduction: similar to the competition. Google could do better on both. Problems: (1) magnifier circle can coincide with the corner handle — my thumb is on the corner handle so I can't see the magnified part of the image. (2) creates 2 images (original and edited) per photo, so you have to manually select pics to make an album. (3) no tutorial so my feature awareness is low (u can move edges!)

Worst thing about this app is the resolution of the scanned photos. I have a pixel 4 and quality is bad. In most cases it fails to fully remove all glare, and so you would probably be better off taking a picture of the photo to get better, more usable resolution. App is cluncky, and results always vary. Larger and darker photos are especially bad. There is no mass export, making it difficult to do a lot of photos at once. Lastly, it's disrespectful to add a watermark on my family's photos.

This app works half of the time. When it does work it is a quick user friendly app that provides good results. The issue with this app is the requirement to move a central circle to four circles in each corner. This is a great theroy but unfortunately half of the time the central circle is imoveable. This results in an error message stating the app cannot complete the scan. I've tried reinstalling the app but the issue persists. Half of the time it requires 4-5 scan attempts in order to get a s

Does what you want it to... If you don't care about quality. This app is very easy to learn, basically no knowledge needed! The photos, no matter what lighting I take them in always end up the same, that being faded and having a dark brown pixelated effects in darker areas. The anti-glare feature also does precious little, if anything it makes the photo even more faded. Overall, good for a quick and dirty scan, but if you're looking for high quality scans, look elsewhere

Good product, in fact really good if you want to scan a single photo. But if you need to scan many, then it is a pain. Resolution is fairly good. Corner/edge detection fails at times. Another point, old photos tend to get curved in, and this App often is not able to resolve corners or edges when that happens. Then, you need a speedy internet connection. Finally, and my biggest gripe - it takes a bit too long to process a single photo. Not good if you want to digitize your old photo album.

Seriously? I scanned three photos, the results were perfect. I'm on photo number four, and I've scanned it about thirty times now, and it just won't work. The heads get cut off, the photo is upside down, and there's clearly a glare from the LED flash still present. Lately Google's been eighty-percenting it, as in "They've got the job almost done, it's eighty percent done, just a little more effort and we'd be there." But instead, they stop at eighty percent and call it a day.

The app is really great, way better and faster than manually scanning them or taking picture of the picture. I will give 4 stars due to a missing feature that I would really love to have, the option to set the timestamp of the picture before (or after). For old photo albums, where you can have several photos at the same day, it would be easy to do and also it would show correctly on Google Photos timeline.

I love this app. I can scan and save some old pics. I can share them with family and I'm actually looking at them. It's real easy to use and the scan quality is great. However, where it falls short is the corner adjustment. It's sometimes hard to get it exactly where you want it. Instead of having just the drag option with your finger, vit would be nice if you could select a corner and tap up/down and left/right to move it slightly each way until you get it to exactly where you want.

First time use was okay. Then it began not get the scan. You have to move the phone to the four circles to complete the scan. An you only have about 30-40 seconds to do. Which is difficult since your not supposed to tilt the phone. Was unable to find any settings to increase the time frame or adjust the scan time. I am looking for another app that is easier to use.

While the scanning of photo is exceptional, the options post scanning are limited. It would be great if option to change the date of the scanned photo is provided (currently it shows up on Google Photos as an on date photo, which is weird for a photo from 50 years ago). Another feature that i would like to see in this app is the ability to make albums, so that date of the entire album can be set manually, instead of doing it individually for the photos. Please consider making these changes.

Occasionally this will cut off random corners and you'll need to adjust them or try again. That's honestly not too bad since it's usually due to the background or the tilt of the camera. However, the photo quality can be - and usually is - horrible, even with a good quality camera. Sometimes it's so blurry you can't read the text on the document you're scanning, which completely defeats the purpose. I'd be better off to just take a normal photo of my document and crop it myself.

This is a very good app for scanning a picture for a picture. It helps get rid of glare that a single picture would not get rid of. Picture should be flat, and well lit for best results. It does not do perspective control, and it is not an image editor - it didn't claim to be. What would make it better (for me) is that since it is sort of taking five pictures to make one, the option to save the picture at a higher resolution. A very good program for its intended job, and it's free.

Great app. Instantly can scan any printed old photo quickly in a few seconds. Quality is very good. Saves a lot of time compared to a scanner and results are comparable with my scanner. Scanned photos go directly to Google Photos app. I think you can improve the quality of the scan by adjusting the light and using the flash function or not. Also, quality may depend on how good your phone camera is.

I love the Google Photo Scan app. I've been using it to scan old family photographs. I find easy to use and much quicker than a flatbed scanner and the quality seems to be nearly the same. Suggestion for improvement - add an option that would capture the back of the photograph. Many of photographs have messages that describe who is in the photograph or other important information.

Works pretty well. Not a replacement for a printer/scanner, but if you can place a photo in bright light (don't use flash!), without too large an area of glare, you can make a pretty nice, quick scan of a photo anywhere you happen to be. Nice for dropping in on relatives and looking through the family album. Might take one or two tries to eliminate glare and haze.

I dunno if the app itself is flawed or if I'm just not using it right, but the very first scan I did came out perfect on the first try whereas scans after that have taken several attempts and still end up a little wonky. I don't think that whole "Place the circle inside the circle" thing is the best way to scan, although it certainly seems like a great idea on the surface.

I like the ease of scannng photos/documents, etc. BUT it doesn't offer a choice of where to save/share the images in texts or FB Messenger, etc. In order to do so; you have to open up your phone's images / gallery app and look for the folder titled "PhotoScan", open it and go to the bottom and find the "Share" button; which will give you options to choose from, like... text, Messenger, Facebook News Feed, etc. Which is fine if you are familiar/comfortable going from app to app.

I love how easy this app is and the fact that you are able to leave photos in their albums and it takes care of any glare for you in the scanned image! I have thousands of photos to scan, I'm not removing them all from their albums.... The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because there are other apps where you can scan multiple photos in one shot, so I know the technology is out there. If this app upgraded and took advantage of that feature, I would change my rating to 5 stars immediately!

This app is really good for taking pictures of old (and new) printed photos on photopaper. However, there is definitely still room for improvement. It would greatly enhance the calibre of the app if a date prompt is embedded into it, such that once a photo is taken, a date can be selected for it so that the photo matches the rest of the time line in one's electronic photo album. If you can take this into consideration that would be awesome.

I wanted to like this app but it's just not good. The issues are that the automatic edge detection doesn't work ever. You have to manually correct each photo. They don't tell you that lighting matters a lot as this app doesn't do white balance correction and a low light photo will ghost. Finally, even in good light and following all directions and manually correcting the corners, the resolution is still extremely low. The scanned photos lack detail and the image file is tiny. Your almost better off doing a panorama photo and cropping it out in Snapseed.

does not put in gallery or upload to google photos i have to go into file system to get photos - actually it does, but it keeps the old photos, filling up your phone when you thought you'd dumped them. If you labeled the internal gallery as "originals" or "backups" or something that gave a clue, that would solve a lot of problems. And the circles thing, well not too successful, but without it the scan is fine.

I really love the idea, and the execution is quite solid. There is one big flaw, though, which is that color reproduction is quite bad if your lighting is not very well engineered. Also I wish it could be used to get bit higher resolution (Which should be possible since it is basically image composition) My key concern, though, is color. For that what I wish they'd add is option to use color patches for calibration (So have black and white squares next to the photo and use those for black/white point) Also option to export raw format and can be edited later on desktop would be nice. At the moment I think this app is cool, but it isn't good enough that I'd dare to destroy the physical copies of the pictures.

The original version worked beautifully, position the camera above the photo, tap each corner to give the app reference points, perfect every time. The current version is nearly unusable, you have to move the camera around to align the circle in four dots to give reference points. Sounds simple but the execution is horrible, every pic is now skewed and requires correction after taking the shot. Learn to leave 'good' products alone, fix your apps that aren't good.

This is an amazing application! I just wish they would update it with equally as amazing features and bug improvements. Such as pulling an image from the gallery and running it through the system for a scan. That'd be really cool! But so far, I've been using it a lot recently.

I like this app a lot. It is easy to use and works well for getting a virtually glare-free, copy of the subject. I use it mostly for scanning instructional docs, floorplan, & diagrams so legibility is important and this app is fat better at obtaining my goal than others I have found. I just wish it had more sharing options, the ability to save the files where you choose, and a panoramic mode.

Super-easy to use. One suggestion. While the program is stiching together the four images together, a huge improvement would be to even out the brightness - as is already done with the latest version of Google's panoramic photo stitching (which, by the way, is fantastic and no longer even needs individual photos – it is one continuous sweeping movement now, guided by little on-screen circles to help the user keep the sweep smooth and aligned).

This used to be a great app. But I recently updated my phone to a Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra, which has an amazing system of cameras, and now when I use this app the photos are washed out, the exposure is too high, the resolution is too low, and they are too much on the yellow side. I'm hoping for an update because this was such a great app. I would hate for PhotoScan by Google to be thrown in the abandonedware bin like so many other Google projects. Update? Please fix? I'd pay...