It's a fast and easy way to get an old snapshot onto Facebook or Instagram. PhotoScan is not a good option for creating a digital archive.īefore I get to the why nots, here's the one good thing I'll say about PhotoScan: As an advocate/evangelist/obnoxiouswindbag about preserving our history, and also as a former professional photographer, I am here to tell you that there are many ways to digitize your photos, and some are better than others. What is most horrifying about PhotoScan to me is that Google is marketing it as a legit tool for you to digitize your old photo albums.
ANDROID PHOTOSCAN MOVIE
What could go wrong? (Cue horror movie music.)Īfter trying out PhotoScan on my Samsung Galaxy Note, I have only this to say: your old photos should be afraid. Easy peasy! Just snap, and it gets rid of glare and automatically straightens your photo. So I had high hopes for Google's PhotoScan phone app: their "photo scanner from the future." The app is supposedly an alternative to getting out a nasty, big old scanner to archive your old photo albums. It saves my cell phone photos to the cloud without my intervention and it can do some cool other things too. Don’t press the normal photo button or your phone will take a normal picture of the whole visible area – click on the Scan button specifically.As I have stated in a previous post, I am a big fan of Google Photos for a number of reasons.Alternatively, you can just crop your image later. If the yellow outline covers more than you want, you can use a finger or small object to ‘mark’ the edge – your camera should pick up the ‘new’ end of your document.If the yellow outline doesn’t capture everything you want, adjust the position of the phone a little until it does.The lighter it is, the better the results will be. Make sure you have sufficient lighting.Some tips on scanning with an Android camera: Because of all this, it will take longer than usual until the new image appears in your camera roll – it may take a few seconds. A slightly misplaced Scan area and buttonĪndroid will also apply some minor white-correction to make sure that the contrast of your scan is preserved. Unlike a regular photo, the scan will be cropped automatically and turned to be the right way up – meaning even if your camera is looking at it upside down, the scan will be the right way up. In order to get a scan – which will be of the section within the outline only – tap the Scan in the middle. It may take a few seconds, but a yellow outline with a scan button in the middle will appear. All you need is your document and your normal Android camera.
ANDROID PHOTOSCAN INSTALL
Android phones support scanning of documents natively – you don’t need to install any apps or even change any settings to use this function.
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