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PhotoScan by Google Photos

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PhotoScan is a new 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 free 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.
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4.3
46,871 total
5 31,312
4 7,073
3 3,500
2 1,886
1 3,100
Eden Yip
Quite primitive. For better capture the app shall include a level or gauge to ensure the pic is not out of the plane. (Updated: the new version to save the scanned photo in one go is **not** good. It greatly increase the time to save the scanned photo. Better to have an option to switch this new feature on and off.)
Gerard Krupa
Used to be better. The annoying caption when I share photos and the un-skippable intro video after I updated the app are mildly annoying but the way the dots keep moving and the unimpressive results are more so.
K Smith
The first picture I scanned was perfect. The next one I scanned SEVEN times and there was a terrible glare on it every time!!! The original picture doesn't have a glare at all. It was when it scanned the picture that it would get the glare. I moved the phone to different areas of the picture when scanning it to see if that would help. I also did it at different heights, or distances from the original. Nothing helped.
Wasted hours scanning photos to my phone only to realize you cant export the photos from the app itself, other than one by one. Also when you share a photo there is a tacky watermark from Google. Save your time and scan the photos or find another app.
Balaji Ramanathan
The quality of this app used to be great, but it has gone down significantly over time. It has significant problems now with most basic things like identifying the corners of photos (even dark photos scanned against a white background get half cut off). It introduces colored artifacts on photos, and the ability to remove flash glare works only sometimes. Other times, the scan is left with a bright spot somewhere. And because it now automatically saves to google photos, both the well-scanned photos as well as the bad ones get backed up to google photos. You don't have the ability to delete the bad ones or rotate/corner adjust the photos before uploading to google photos. You have to go to google photos and remove the bad photos from there. Scanning old photos went from tedious to double-tedious and error-prone. Google just couldn't leave well enough alone.
Michelle Squyars
So much easier than putting our old family photos on a scanner. Don't even need to take them out of the album. It even sharpens some of the pics that are faded. Only wish I could add information about each picture as I take them. Unless I'm missing something, I have to go into my Google Photos app after my pictures are scanned to add things like dates and people in the pictures.

User reviews

Eden Yip December 13, 2017
Quite primitive. For better capture the app shall include a level or gauge to ensure the pic is not out of the plane. (Updated: the new version to save the scanned photo in one go is **not** good. It greatly increase the time to save the scanned photo. Better to have an option to switch this new feature on and off.)
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Gerard Krupa December 20, 2017
Used to be better. The annoying caption when I share photos and the un-skippable intro video after I updated the app are mildly annoying but the way the dots keep moving and the unimpressive results are more so.
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K Smith January 9, 2018
The first picture I scanned was perfect. The next one I scanned SEVEN times and there was a terrible glare on it every time!!! The original picture doesn't have a glare at all. It was when it scanned the picture that it would get the glare. I moved the phone to different areas of the picture when scanning it to see if that would help. I also did it at different heights, or distances from the original. Nothing helped.
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December 25, 2017
Wasted hours scanning photos to my phone only to realize you cant export the photos from the app itself, other than one by one. Also when you share a photo there is a tacky watermark from Google. Save your time and scan the photos or find another app.
Full Review
Balaji Ramanathan December 22, 2017
The quality of this app used to be great, but it has gone down significantly over time. It has significant problems now with most basic things like identifying the corners of photos (even dark photos scanned against a white background get half cut off). It introduces colored artifacts on photos, and the ability to remove flash glare works only sometimes. Other times, the scan is left with a bright spot somewhere. And because it now automatically saves to google photos, both the well-scanned photos as well as the bad ones get backed up to google photos. You don't have the ability to delete the bad ones or rotate/corner adjust the photos before uploading to google photos. You have to go to google photos and remove the bad photos from there. Scanning old photos went from tedious to double-tedious and error-prone. Google just couldn't leave well enough alone.
Full Review
Michelle Squyars December 26, 2017
So much easier than putting our old family photos on a scanner. Don't even need to take them out of the album. It even sharpens some of the pics that are faded. Only wish I could add information about each picture as I take them. Unless I'm missing something, I have to go into my Google Photos app after my pictures are scanned to add things like dates and people in the pictures.
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Bill Bray December 19, 2017
Before the update I liked this app. But the update removed the controls for saving and backing up scans. As a result the initial scan is automatically saved to Google photos and there is no capacity to save adjusted ( rotated, cropped etc) photos to the cloud. Now u have to delete the original photos from the cloud, transfer the adjusted photos from my phone to PC, and then save them to the cloud. What a pain.
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Lisa Reed December 28, 2017
Ive seen it work ok on other phones, but not on mine. Messed with settings but never solved it. Photos were scanning black half the time. Grey and blurry the rest.
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Ramanjot Sidhu December 16, 2017
Not so good. My phone has 16MP camera but when i click photos with this app. They just like clicked with 2MP camera. Improve it. But overall good app.😇
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Trevor Vance January 7, 2018
Great app! I went through my grandma's house and scanned a whole bunch of really old pictures and they look better on my phone than they did on the actual picture!
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Denis Rivard December 16, 2017
I agree with many others; just taking a picture with the camera will get you better results. Glare suppression is good though. Should be able to choose the resolution...
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Matthew Birch January 1, 2018
I really loved this app upon release, but I'm now having a few struggles with it, photo results seem to be nowhere near as good as before. Hope this can be fixed, if so it's a 5 star from me! Great app.
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Erick M December 15, 2017
Doing a Secret Santa with a close friend who loves The Office also. I scanned my HS photo and I'm recreating the Tea Pot Secret Santa gift (except for another dude xD). It looks great and he's going to love it :)
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Marty December 12, 2017
I think I'm pretty smart...but I couldn't even START scanning,the directions are terrible and contradictory,I got so frustrated I just deleted the app in less than 10 minutes.
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Luke Thomas January 3, 2018
Anti glare feature is good, but photos are much lower resolution than just using the regular camera app, so what's the point? Dissappointing.
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Rod 143 December 18, 2017
One of the best scanner app I've used. The app takes a picture of the four corners of the document and merge it to create a "flat" image. Fours stars for room for improvement.
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Niraj Pradhan December 29, 2017
You have to admit it's Google thing... rocking.
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December 15, 2017
I'm so glad to see this app exists! It is something that I was hoping would be developed last time I tried taking a pic of an old photo using my phone. Great app!
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Paco Martillo December 28, 2017
Great app, but previous version was better. Please bring back option to save in cloud instead saving to cloud automatically.
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Derek Cameron December 27, 2017
Wasn't very good in stitching photos together to create a perfect one. Always missed info and didn't take out light
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Andrew McDonald December 20, 2017
A week ago I would have given in 5 stars... Why on earth has the 'Save' button been removed??! The process before worked absolutely perfectly: 1. Scan a pile of pictures 2. Proof check all the rotation/ corners making adjustments as you went 3. Save all to device once you were absolutely certain that all the photos had been checked and approved by you Now, the app is just doing the saving bit all by itself - so you don't know if it saved before or after proofing :(
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Jeff W January 9, 2018
The app is a 50/50 gamble. Sometimes the four dots are at a weird angle, sometimes the end result is blurry. I have a Samsung galaxy s8.
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Angel Melendez December 23, 2017
I found this app unusable. It requests that photo overlay for all programs be turned off before you can set the permissions for the app. However, even after you go through the trouble of figuring out how to do so, your still stuck with the same pop-up requesting that you turn off photo overlay. Attempts at using the email address to the developer led me to another rabbit hole, equally useless.
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Connie Pearson January 9, 2018
The app was ruined when a white border around each scan was added along with the PhotoScan logo. I question the logic.
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Deepak Tiwari December 27, 2017
Its not able to scan documents please give an update for it
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Shrey Shourya January 9, 2018
Whenever I scan photos by using flash (when needed) the 1st click is good but while going through the 4 dots the flash goes off and photos scanned are very dark
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Punit Soni January 7, 2018
Great way to scan old photos. Very good results.
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ANDROID APP December 27, 2017
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Roman January 3, 2018
Has a useless watermark so can't be used for important bank documents
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Khandker Ashique Reza December 31, 2017
Such a brilliant one. It's works better on my Galaxy S8 plus.
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Neil Clarke December 11, 2017
This thing is marvelous for scanning documents,it got stuck on the intro & wouldnt do anything until i reinstalled it though
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subbu vijay December 8, 2017
Its showing glare after process
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Johnny Nunley December 13, 2017
Not good quality...not in focus...did not take off glare.
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Ismael Moustafa December 29, 2017
Add the ability to add a timestamp on import! All these photos appear new in my library and would like them to appear in order in my timeline.
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connor griffin December 15, 2017
Kept leaving out parts of my photo.
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Leslie Thomason December 25, 2017
Great for backing up old photos
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Jaime Ariel Acosta December 19, 2017
Marvelous, it does a wonderful job
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Aadarsh Jha December 17, 2017
Good but same as many think not so special no collage maker or ocr or batch mode
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Joshua December 20, 2017
Worked well when using it on very old photos. Sometimes peoples skin came out a little lighter.
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Erin Wright January 7, 2018
I'm going through old pictures of my dad for his funeral. This app is AMAZING and the quality of the scans are awesome. It has made this step in the process just a little bit easier.
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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.

Additional information

Updated
December 12, 2017
Installs
5,000,000 - 10,000,000
Requires Android
5.0 and up
Content Rating
PEGI 3
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