PhotoScan by Google Photos

PhotoScan by Google Photos is the photo scanner application for Android with which you can convert old photos to digital format without losing quality.

Google's scanner for old photos

Each of us, or our family, probably has a huge collection of old photos that we look at from time to time to remember the good old days. The bad thing about these photos is that they usually get corrupted over time, so it's a good idea to digitize them rather than edit them. Besides, this also gives you the opportunity to share them on WhatsApp with your old friends or cousins ​​that you haven't seen in ages.

Google's app for scanning photos with your Android

It goes by the name of photo scanner from Google Photos, and as usual with the products developed by the search engine company, it has a very clean and straightforward interface design that you'll appreciate once you've downloaded its APK. The user options are also reduced to a minimum and are limited to the essentials in order to achieve a perfect scan.

A lot of care has been taken in the technical area to avoid glare and there are various features capable of correcting errors to ensure the end result is as decent as possible.

The most important functions

The app offers us the following features to make the scanning process as perfect as possible and not like taking a photo of another photo:

• Step-by-step acquisition process.
• Automatic edge detection to cut them out.
• Perspective correction to get straight and rectangular scans.
• Intelligent rotation function: keep all images upright, no matter how you scanned them.
• Automatically save scans to Google Photos.

Secure storage in the cloud

In addition to achieving the highest quality to ensure that you don't waste time editing and enhancing images, it also has a feature to automatically save and save all images to the cloud. For this purpose, he uses Google Photos, the online photo album service that allows you to organize all your scans and even use the advanced editing features.

From this online web service you can edit images, mount videos and share your images with whoever you want.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 5.0.