PhotoScan by Google Photos 4+

I am absolutely thrilled that I discovered this app! My son‘s fiancé asked for baby pictures of my son and his growing up years. I have had a lot of them stored in plastic bins in random order. They are precious to me, however, I haven’t really enjoyed them for quite some time. Time is of the essence and I selected some very special photos to send to her. I am sending the physical photos. I was concerned that I did not have some of the originals and didn’t feel like I had time to scan them. I was just about re-signed to sending them off without digital copies. Then I found this app! My concern was I had quite a few photos and I was not sure I would be able to capture them in the best light. I just started scanning them and saving them into a shared album! This thrills me to no end! It has been hard for me to part with physical photos and I do believe it’s great to have digital ones. That way if they get damaged or lost, I will still have a copy! At the moment, I am working on photos of my son. However, I’m excited about scanning other family photos for genealogical purposes! Again, it is unusual for me to rate an app only moments after using it, but this is truly a godsend, and I will be spreading the word with my friends who struggle with maintaining and sharing their photos! Thank You!!!

I love how intuitive the app was to digitally scan old photos of family members. I was turned onto this app when my father-in-law recently passed away. I was assisting my wife scan the numerous photos of her father throughout his life. We were using an Epson scanner and found it very tedious and time-,consuming despite the obvious grief we were experiencing for his recent passing. Nonetheless, I thought to myself with all the recent advances in technology isn’t their an easier way to scan these photos for posterity as well as use for a slideshow tribute? Yes, indeed there was and it was free of charge from Google. Works pretty darn well and am impressed how true to the actual pictures the digital copy chame out. I would highly recommend everyone use this app to scan old photos of family members, pets, or anything you cherish and want kept for posterity. Only issue of mine is the lack of real seamless syncing with my MacBook Pro. I find that the Google Photos app doesn’t want to work well with my MacBook Pro. It was getting stuck in the export of the data from my iPhone. Not sure if it is user error but recommend Google tech developers get on that!

This app is straight up AWESOME. There are other good scanner apps out there, but this is by far the best photo scanner app I have ever used. In fact, it might even be better than actual photo scanner machines. The quality of scans is great. I scanned several old family photos and they came out clear and accurate.

It has to take a picture in the dead center of the picture, then it primos you to move to the four corners of the picture. It similar to when you take panoramic photos with your phone. By taking pictures of the center and each corner, it allows the software of the app to automatically get out any glare, but also maintain the integrity of the photo. Once you're finished with a batch you can save the photos to your Google Photos app.

I highly recommend it to anyone, but especially those who have been wanting to scan old photos, but have been afraid of the amount of time it would take as well as the money to spend on a photo scanner. Here is your answer.