▶ How to scan photos with your mobile for free
Table of contents:
- How to scan old photos with your mobile
- How to Scan Documents for Free with FotoScan
- OTHER TRICKS FOR Google Photos
If you have many old photos at home that you would like to have in digital format, you have probably wondered how to scan photos with your mobile for free.
The most rudimentary way to do it is to simply take a photo of the photo But the results are usually not very good, since sometimes Often glare appears where it shouldn't or flash reflection appears. If we scan it from the PC, the results are usually better, but we need to have a scanner at home, which not everyone has.
To solve this problem, Google has released FotoScan, a new tool from the Google Photos family that is designed to scan all those old photos that you have at home directly from your mobile without the results losing quality.
This application will allow you to make a scan without reflections and with an automatic crop based on edge detection, which will prevent you from later having to to dedicate yourself to editing the photos to delete the excess space. Plus, it backs up your photos to Google Photos, so you don't have to worry about losing them.
How to scan old photos with your mobile
To know how to scan old photos with your mobile phone, it is essential that you have both the aforementioned FotoScan application and Google installed on your smartphone Photos.It will be from Photos where you will start the process, but the second tool must also be installed on your phone. Once you make sure both apps are installed and available to you, you can scan all the photos you have around the house by following these steps:
- In Google Photos, go to Library > Utilities > Scan photos with FotoScan .
- To start scanning, hold your phone right over a photo. Touch the button to take a photo. It will automatically save to your device.
- Move the phone to the circle that appears over each of the four dots.
- When the photo has been processed, go to the bottom right corner and tap the photo thumbnail.
- Select a photo to rotate, adjust the corners, or delete.
How to Scan Documents for Free with FotoScan
If what you need is not to scan photos but documents, it is possible that when reading this post you are considering how to scan documents for free with FotoScan .
The reality is that this application is specially designed for scanning photos. To scan documents there are other more specific applications in the Google Play Store such as CamScanner But of course that does not mean that if you wish you cannot use FotoScan also to convert to format digital your documents.
The steps to follow would be the same as those we have explained to scan a photograph. As it is not an app specially designed for scanning documents, there is no additional step that you have to follow if you want to transfer your papers to your mobile.
The main problem with using this app to scan documents is that they will be uploaded to Google Photos in image format. Therefore, if you need to have them in PDF, you will need to use an additional application to change the format.
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