PhotoScan by Google Photos

Google LLC

About this app

PhotoScan is a scanner app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favorite printed photos using your phone’s camera.



Picture perfect and glare free



Don’t just take a picture of a picture. Create enhanced digital scans, wherever your photos are.



– Get glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow



– Automatic cropping based on edge detection



– Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction



– Smart rotation, so your photos stay right-side-up no matter which way you scan them



Scan in seconds



Capture your favorite printed photos quickly and easily, so you can spend less time editing and more time looking at your bad childhood haircut.



Safe and searchable with Google Photos



Back up your scans with the Google Photos app to keep them safe, searchable, and organized. Bring your scans to life with movies, filters, and advanced editing controls. And share them with anyone, just by sending a link.

Ratings and reviews

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.

Typical Google, promise more than they offer. In my test the app did not handle black and white photos very well. The bottom was found fine but the top is always black. The final image is larger (boarders) then the photograph you were trying to record with this app and needed to be edited to the actual photo size. The default phone camera handled the photos considerably better.

It's honestly pretty bad, even in the best possible conditions. It consistently fails to detect the borders of pictures, even on a very uniform background. Using it without the flash pretty much guarantees you will have a lot of reflections. There's also some weird tints sometimes, like the software just decides to boost the reds for no apparent reason for exemple. And there's no real tutorial explaining what factors would make it better or worse, so overall not very good.

What's new

Easier capture and save

Scanned photos are saved to your device on capture.



Improved corner editor

In addition to the corners, you can now drag the edges to adjust the automatic cropping of your scanned photo.