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 have thousands of photos, many really old and poor quality. They are all in albums which take up too much space. Family never look at them. Before throwing them all away, I wanted a cheap, quick and simple way of digitising them. PhotoScan meets my needs. Place the photo on a sheet of white paper, frame the image and take the photo. The app crops the image and rotates. In most cases the resulting image is great for my needs. I do t use the flash and 4 image method.

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.

Better than I expected!! The only time I've ever given any app 5 stars. Had a ton of old family photos kicking around and don't have a scanner to scan them into my pc, so I gave this a try. Had very little expectations but wow, I was impressed. Takes the glare away and takes a nice, sharp image. Once I was finished, I transfered my photos from my phone to my PC so I could properly edit them. This app is so good, that I'm surprised that it was free.

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.