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

I am gifting a video of past holiday photos for my grandparents & the oldest photo is 1967! I can lay them all out on a table & take a scan one-by-one, yet it's really fast & super easy! You can rotate/crop right in the app & no matter how shaky my attempt is, they turn out great! I was rating 4 stars because I wasn't sure where to get the photos after scanned (no share option) & realized they're all right there on my Google photos! This tool is 11 out of 10!!!! SOo TIME SAVING & AWESOME!

An almost-functional app that scans and remove glare by having your camera takes multiple shots at different angles. The main issue is that there's no simple "save to device" button and only share options to other apps. Granted, there's an auto-save but if you want another copy, you can't simply save it to device with a click. Document also exports with a version that has a border advertising the app. Wish there was a way to turn that off.

Awesome for removing glare and crops beautifully. This is now my go-to app for photos too fragile to remove from albums or frames. That said, there is a fatal downside -- the resulting photos are only 2.4 mp!!!! If app were updated to use full resolution, I'd give it 6 stars. (Mar 2021 - I see that it now saves photos in 5 mp, which is better but clearly underutilizes camera sensor. I was hoping that, by now, resolution would be better even if it were only in a paid version.)

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.