Google Photoscan

Physical photo albums continue to bring family and friends together around a collection of photos from the past and impossible hairstyles Although less and less frequently. And it is that using mobile phones and digital cameras makes printing on paper more and more like an option of the past. But what do we do with all those classic photos? Do we leave them printed until they deteriorate? Do we scan them and go to the computer one by one? Google has developed a fast, comfortable and surprising response to digitize them via mobile.

Google Photoscan is an application that transforms the phone camera , either Android or iPhone, in a true scanner And yes, you've thought about the reflections, the crooked photos and in impossible perspectives In other words, this application solves the classic problems of taking a photo of a photo With this, a result is achieved of quality, as if it had really been scanned with a device for this purpose, but with a more agile and comfortableprocess that anyone can carry out.

Just start the application to activate the terminal's camera The first step is to take a photo with good light on the physical snapshotThis allows the application to detect its size and borders Thanks to the recognition technology that Googlehas included in Photoscan, the application indicates four points to photograph in detail within the own image.

Thus, you only have to move the mobile using the points as framing reference The best thing is that you don't have to be especially careful with perspective, just with a good focus, no matter if the mobile phone or the photo are not parallel or even if there are reflections due to the incidence of natural or artificial light from the environment in which we find ourselves.

After completing the four photos, Photoscan takes care of joining them into a single image Thanks to the references regarding the edges and the union of the four photographs, it is able to know if reflections have occurred in order to eliminate them, and to add resolution to the final image.Automatically takes care of eliminating the excess beyond the margins and getting a scan and quality reproductionOf course, the better the scan is in terms of light conditions and perspective of the photograph, the better the result will be However, in our tests, we have achieved digitalize photos without any kind of care and with a result more than acceptable

After that, Photoscan collects all the scanned photos to keep them handy in the application. However, being a Google service, they couldn't pass up the opportunity to offer to upload all this content to Google Photos , the application where store and sort all the photos in the cloud or the Internet In this way the images will be saved for posterity even if they are lose or break the mobile.Of course, you must have this application Google Photos

In short, a tool for those who want to get hold of the digital version of their old simply, quickly and with quality Best of all, Google Photoscan is available for both mobile Android andiPhone for free Just download it via Google Play Store or from App Store