PhotoScan by Google Photos

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About this app

PhotoScan is a scanner app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favourite 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 that your photos stay right-side-up no matter which way you scan them



Scan in seconds



Capture your favourite printed photos quickly and easily, so that 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 organised. Bring your scans to life with movies, filters and advanced editing controls. And share them with anyone, just by sending a link.
Photos from the past, meet the scanner from the future.
Updated on
24 Jul 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
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  • 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

204K reviews
A Google user
28 May 2019
Works pretty well. Not a replacement for a printer/scanner, but if you can place a photo in bright light (don't use flash!), without too large an area of glare, you can make a pretty nice, quick scan of a photo anywhere you happen to be. Nice for dropping in on relatives and looking through the family album. Might take one or two tries to eliminate glare and haze.
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A Google user
22 March 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.
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Jake Leatham
26 January 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.
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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.