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

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.

There needs to be an actually easy way to quickly take a photo of another photo. I don't need every single photo. I take a picture of to have museum quality. I don't need to go over every corner of every image of everything I ever take ever to take a picture of a photo. Some photos. It would be nice to have this option so you would have a higher quality image, but other photos. This takes an unnecessary amount of time to get an unnecessarily high quality image of something to simply share it

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.

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.