Analog photos and photo albums are still popular reminders of old times. The disadvantage: With the increasing digitization of everyday life, more and more photos that we really love are gathering dust in the shoebox and are looked at far too rarely. Digitizing with flatbed scanners or at least photo scanners designed specifically for them is either expensive or time-consuming – even an option only for real collector’s items. With the photo scanner app, Google offers an application for smartphones that saves you exactly these annoying intermediate steps. Google isn’t pursuing a new idea with this for a long time – in practice, however, the app works much better than what we’ve been used to from the competition.
This is ensured by numerous automatisms and editing functions. Disturbing reflections, for example, are automatically removed from the digital image. In addition, the app comes with corrections for perspective on your smartphone and automatically crops the images to the best size and resolution. In general, the quality of the “scans” is extremely high. This is made possible because the Google photo scanner works with several scan processes and can always select the best image sections. Of course, you can then edit all the photos in Google Photos – the pictures are available in the cloud like any picture taken with a smartphone.