from those which are to be disposed-off such as glare spots. Google has trained its algorithm, in a series of efforts, to distinguish between preservable elements of a photo, such as warmth, temperature etc. Notice the 4 circles on PhotoScan’s widget. It uses a combination of computer vision and image processing.

The Google Photo Scan App is modeled to optimize images, taking the glare out of the picture, which you get often due to the flash of a camera. You can take multiple photos in a single shot and save them together to create a photo collage of sorts as well. You now have a print-ready scanned copy of the physical photo.

As you complete aligning the camera with the boundary circles, the app produces an optimized image.

The app asks you to move the phone towards the circles.

Once you click the shutter button at the bottom, four circles appear at the boundary of the image.

Launch the application and the camera frame asks you to position the picture within the prescribed field view.

For this demonstration, let’s jump into the app and find our way around it. PhotoScan by Google Photos is an archetype app of Google, hence, its user interface is just as minimal. Moreover, if that wasn’t already a challenge with lax millennials, there wouldn’t be a smartphone app solving the problem. Scanning old photos through flatbed scanners is a tiresome task for few and annoying for many.

While there are few alternatives to try out, some of which earn mentions in this post, today we’ll be reviewing PhotoScan by Google Photos. To the rescue, less surprisingly, are apps that digitize old photos into a save-able version of the print, stored on the phones (or cloud). But the instantaneous delivery of content on smartphones have made us a couch potato to open the cupboard and sift through bundles of album pages in (rare) free time. For what it’s worth, it wouldn’t be wrong to say the same for our albums. They permit you to revisit moments that were just as unmissable as they were capturable. Polaroids, for many, are one of the most prized memorabilia out of a collection of artifacts.

Google photo scan