{"id":16414,"date":"2016-11-17T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2017-04-25T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:52:07","slug":"google-photoscan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/google-photoscan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google PhotoScan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/photos\/now-your-photos-look-better-ever-even-those-dusty-old-prints\/\">Jingyu Cui<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/photos\/now-your-photos-look-better-ever-even-those-dusty-old-prints\/\"><p>We all have those old albums and boxes of photos, but we don&rsquo;t take the time to digitize them because it&rsquo;s just too hard to get it right. We don&rsquo;t want to mail away our original copy, buying a scanner is costly and time consuming, and if you try to take a photo of a photo, you end up with crooked edges and glare.<\/p><p>We knew there had to be a better way, so we&rsquo;re introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/PhotoScan\">PhotoScan<\/a>, a brand new, standalone app from Google Photos that easily scans just about any photo, free, from anywhere. Get it today for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner&amp;referrer=utm_source%3Dogb\">Android<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/apple-store\/id1165525994?pt=9008&amp;ct=ogb&amp;mt=8\">iOS<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plus, lots of old photos are not easily removed from their albums for scanning. So even though I have a ScanSnap, which is the easiest way I&rsquo;ve found to scan photos, I can&rsquo;t always use it.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2016\/11\/googles-photoscan-uses-your-phone-to-digitize-old-photos\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2016\/11\/googles-photoscan-uses-your-phone-to-digitize-old-photos\/\"><p>The results I got were&#8230; only okay. Some photos were distorted, and none of them looked particularly great. In other words, you get what you pay for&mdash;this is free and easy and better than never getting old photos in digital form, but it&rsquo;s also not going to give you the quality of scanning items yourself or sending prints, slides, and film to a photo-scanning service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I think being easy is the key feature, the difference between having photos of questionable quality vs. not scanning at all. Hopefully the quality will improve.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2016\/11\/15\/introducing-photoscan-by-google-photos\/\">Shawn King<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2016\/11\/google-photoscan\/\">Michael Rockwell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/11\/15\/google-photoscan-ios-app\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2016-12-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/google-photoscan\">David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/google-photoscan\">\n<p>I tested it with some old family photos and it works great, particularly old photos with not-so-great resolution to begin with.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2016-12-18): I am getting pretty good results, although it really reduces the resolution of the photo. It&rsquo;s still better to use the ScanSnap where possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jingyu Cui: We all have those old albums and boxes of photos, but we don&rsquo;t take the time to digitize them because it&rsquo;s just too hard to get it right. 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