"Do you want to make a digital copy of your old photographs? The first way that comes to your mind is a typical flatbed scanner. You put each photo in the scanner, it scans and makes a digital copy of it and then you add the second one. You do this again and again and again. It takes up half of your day. However, Google provides a solution for this. Its new app called PhotoScan can be used to digitize printed photographs quickly. It even has features you can use to edit your photographs.

Google PhotoScan enables you to kind of take photographs of your photographs but removes the glare, provides proper orientation and straightens the image. You can also save these digital copies to cloud.

How to use Google PhotoScan?

Download the free app.
Open the app. It is ready to take a picture. Position the camera above the photograph and make sure it fits in the frame. The app will remove whatever that doesn’t fit.
A large circle appears on the screen. Four dots also appear on the corners of your screen.
Move your phone until the larger circle overlaps one of the dots. A blue line runs around the circle.
The same process is repeated with other dots.
The app then stitches all photos in a single photograph within a few seconds. This is also how it removes glare.
You can save the images on your phone.
See, how easy it is with PhotoScan!

You can do this as many times you wish to. Pictures can be saved to Google Photos with a single tap and can even be saved on your camera roll or shared on another app. Photos are automatically cropped or rotated.

The photograph quality too is quite impressive, far better than a normal flatbed scanner. For such high quality pictures you need a professional scanner which costs a lot of money. Plus as mentioned above, scanning photographs is an extremely time-consuming job. This is where Google PhotoScan comes in handy. The app is not only free but it can be downloaded in both Android and IOS so you can have as many scanners as mobile phones. This enables more than one person to scan photograph, making the process quicker.

So to sum it up, PhotoScan might be the best app out there to digitize your photographs!"