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

204,505


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

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2

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User Reviews

Madison Scott Madison Scott
4,668
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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!

Sam H Sam H
720
Thursday, March 6, 2025

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.

A Google user A Google user
4,346
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

This is a very good app for scanning a picture for a picture. It helps get rid of glare that a single picture would not get rid of. Picture should be flat, and well lit for best results. It does not do perspective control, and it is not an image editor - it didn't claim to be. What would make it better (for me) is that since it is sort of taking five pictures to make one, the option to save the picture at a higher resolution. A very good program for its intended job, and it's free. Edited

Clay Beaudette Clay Beaudette
1,923
Thursday, June 1, 2023

On the one hand it did a great job at removing the glare. That is the only positive. The other hand: discoloration, skewed perspective, blurry. The reason being it takes the initial image in focus with flash (if enabled) then has you move to 4 points and takes further images creating a composite. It does not trigger the flash, nor does it wait for the camera to refocus, when it takes the other images for the compositing. The result is a composite of one clear image and 3 out of focus.

Beverly Hoeftman Beverly Hoeftman
6,457
Monday, March 25, 2024

Maybe it's a quirk of my phone, but I always have a HUGE amount of glare in every single scan. The results are 100% useless. Also, the step where you have to "move" something to four circles seems as unnecessary as it is cumbersome. It doesn't appear to serve any purpose at all. This was the only free scanning app I could find that doesn't demand access to info it couldn't possibly need. I'll be sticking with my laptop and scanner.

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