Physical photos are fragile. That’s why it’s a good idea to scan them and keep them in the cloud. With these photo scan apps you can quickly digitize all your albums.
Best photo scanning apps in the App Store
When you take photos with your iPhone, they are directly stored in the cloud. If your smartphone breaks, you will not lose your snapshots. That is different with a physical photo album. The photos discolor or damage in another way and they will never be the way they were. In a fire or other accident, they are gone forever. Don’t want to take that risk? Then make a digital copy.
An additional advantage of a digital copy is that you also share the photos more easily. For example, you can share an album full of old family photos with your family so they can browse it on their own time. Or you share snapshots of yourself as a child via social media. Whatever you are planning, with the following apps you can make digital scans of your photos via your iPhone.
1. Photo scan of Google Photos
Google is good at photos and the Photoscan app is no exception. Special about this app is that you scan photos in extra high resolution. You can, because you take multiple digital photos from one physical photo, and the app combines them into a single image for you. The application guides you through this step by step, so that it is easy and fast.
The app will then automatically crop the photos and remove glare when you try to scan a shiny photo. In a relatively short time, you can save all your old photos in high quality in the cloud in this way.
2. Photo scanner from Photomyne
With Photomyne it is possible to scan multiple photos at once. This is useful if you want to digitize an entire photo album and do not necessarily want the best quality. You take a photo of a page via the app. The app then recognizes the individual photos and crops them automatically. Without a subscription you cannot store unlimited photos, but because the scanned images can be exported to other services, that shouldn’t be a problem. It is also a very friendly app, including an option to view scanned photos of others.
The free version of the app is unfortunately only a taster. You may create a maximum of three albums with a maximum of fifty scanned photos. Then you buy Photo Scanner Plus for 1.09 euros for unlimited photo scanning.
3. Pic Scanner
Pic Scanner also lets you digitize photos quickly by scanning multiple snapshots on a page at the same time. It’s a nice looking app with a focus on images. Cropping the photos is automatic and you can also edit some extra to make pictures more beautiful. Through captions and merging the photos into albums you can create a kind of story and share it. Unfortunately, you have to buy the more expensive Pic Scanner Gold for more features.
Exchange photos with PC or Mac
Then you have digitized all your photos, but how do you transfer them to your PC or Mac? There are several ways to do this. Some apps have their own cloud services so that you can also view the photos on your computer, but you usually have to pay for them. Don’t worry, we have 4 ways to exchange iPhone photos with your PC or Mac.