PhotoScan by Google Photos 4+

Came across this and I was surprised at the good work it does. Most of the times it provides a good quality scan (enough for simple scanning, obviously wont match a scanner), but handy especially for scanning receipts. It does a very good job with stitching the images and also dealing with the glare (when paper is glossy). Sometimes it may distort the image a bit, but I haven’t found it major. I just rescan again when I’m not satisfied with stitches product. Again, it depends on the purpose of the scan. Overall great rounder.

Left with an enormous task of making sense and putting into folders around 3,000 loose photos which came to light when we moved house. I was pulling my hair out, trying to scan each photo (with lousy results from my printer). Now, I am whizzing through them and I have warmed to the task. Absolutely fantastic app. Well done Google!

The app scans ok although it significantly decreases the imagine quality, which is particular frustrating since most of the photos being scanned are very old and therefore not the best quality to begin with.

Once you have scanned them and go to save them to your phone, naturally you would assume you can save directly to your camera roll- but no. They have made it extremely inconvenient to save the photos. I have to save it to my google drive, which is extremely slow at uploading, then email it to myself, then screenshot the images from my email app then crop them all. Not sure who’s job it was to decide not to add a ‘save to camera roll’ button on this app but I highly recommend firing them for this extreme oversight