PhotoScan by Google Photos

4.1
198K reviews
50M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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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.
Updated on
Jul 24, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.1
197K reviews
Madison Scott
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!
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A Google user
May 30, 2020
Really useful app for digitising old photos. One feature request would be to allow the date to be set on the image so that it reflects the date of the original image rather than the date of digitising. It would also be great if you could select where the scans went e.g. to a specific album or shared album.
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Jacqui & Ray Farrington
January 12, 2025
This App used to be fantastic and took 4 different pictures of the original photograph from 4 different corners and made a wonderful copy. Now, it seems to only take one scan, which is not as high quality as the 4 combined. I'm not sure why this was changed, but I will go looking for another PhotoScan app if this is not changed back.
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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.