PhotoScan by Google Photos
PhotoScan by Google Photos
PhotoScan by Google Photos
Everyone
Google LLC
Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future.


Average Rating

4.1


Number of Ratings

204,747


Number of Downloads

50M+


Contains Ads

False


In-App Purchases

False


Install Fee

Free


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About PhotoScan by Google Photos

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 ... read more

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Total Permissions

9

Total Categories

4

Highest Risk

6

Average Risk

4

Counts

2

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User Reviews

A Google user A Google user
4,395
Friday, March 22, 2019

App is incredibly basic and incomplete. First, realize that the quality of the scans are barely acceptable by today's standards! I get lots of blur and double-vision effects. I get better output from a regular camera photo. I'm using a Google Pixel 3, so go figure. As for the basics: After scanning, there is no photo adjustment. No brightness, no color, no rotation. There's no way to LABEL THE PHOTOS!? No way to organize them in folders!? No way to choose storage location/card. This seems half-baked at best.

Jake Leatham Jake Leatham
4,884
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Worst thing about this app is the resolution of the scanned photos. I have a pixel 4 and quality is bad. In most cases it fails to fully remove all glare, and so you would probably be better off taking a picture of the photo to get better, more usable resolution. App is cluncky, and results always vary. Larger and darker photos are especially bad. There is no mass export, making it difficult to do a lot of photos at once. Lastly, it's disrespectful to add a watermark on my family's photos.

Geoff Smith Geoff Smith
666
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

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.) Edited

Hondo Murray Hondo Murray
1,510
Saturday, March 27, 2021

I like the ease of scannng photos/documents, etc. BUT it doesn't offer a choice of where to save/share the images in texts or FB Messenger, etc. In order to do so; you have to open up your phone's images / gallery app and look for the folder titled "PhotoScan", open it and go to the bottom and find the "Share" button; which will give you options to choose from, like... text, Messenger, Facebook News Feed, etc. Which is fine if you are familiar/comfortable going from app to app.

Big E Big E
3,412
Thursday, October 3, 2019

I like this app a lot. It is easy to use and works well for getting a virtually glare-free, copy of the subject. I use it mostly for scanning instructional docs, floorplan, & diagrams so legibility is important and this app is fat better at obtaining my goal than others I have found. I just wish it had more sharing options, the ability to save the files where you choose, and a panoramic mode.

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