PhotoScan by Google Photos for PC - Free Download: Windows 10/11 Edition

★ ★ ★ PhotoScan by Google Photos Overview

What is PhotoScan by Google Photos?

PhotoScan is a mobile app developed by Google Photos that allows users to scan and save their favorite printed photos using their phone's camera. The app provides enhanced digital scans of printed photos, making them glare-free and perspective-corrected. The app also offers automatic cropping based on edge detection and smart rotation to keep photos right-side-up.

Software Features and Description

1. Capture your favorite printed photos quickly and easily, so you can spend less time editing and more time looking at your bad childhood haircut.

2. PhotoScan is an app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favorite printed photos using your phone’s camera.

3. For documents and photos in glare-free environments, toggle off glare removal for even faster scans.

4. Back up your scans with the Google Photos app to keep them safe, searchable, and organized.

5. Create enhanced digital scans, wherever your photos are.

6. Bring your scans to life with movies, filters, and advanced editing controls.

7. Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future.

8. Don’t just take a picture of a picture.

9. And share them with anyone, just by sending a link.

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Download and install PhotoScan by Google Photos on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
PhotoScan	Get App ↲	78,528 4.81	Google LLC

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install PhotoScan by Google Photos app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using PhotoScan by Google Photos on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "PhotoScan by Google Photos"
The search will reveal the PhotoScan by Google Photos app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once PhotoScan by Google Photos is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including PhotoScan by Google Photos.
Now enjoy PhotoScan by Google Photos on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Google LLC	4.81	1.7

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native PhotoScan by Google Photos Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use PhotoScan by Google Photos,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "PhotoScan by Google Photos" » then Click "Install".
- PhotoScan by Google Photos will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get PhotoScan on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Google LLC	78528	4.81

Download on Android: Download Android

PhotoScan by Google Photos functions

- Glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow

- Automatic cropping based on edge detection

- Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction

- Smart rotation to keep photos right-side-up

- Quick and easy capture of printed photos

- Toggle off glare removal for faster scans in glare-free environments

- Back up scans with Google Photos app for safe, searchable, and organized storage

- Advanced editing controls, filters, and movie creation to bring scans to life

- Share scans with anyone by sending a link.

✔ Pros:

- Handles both gray and color photos well

- Easy-to-follow instructions for scanning

- Anti-glare feature works great for pictures in frames or behind glass

- Scanned images are of great quality

☹ Cons:

- Border detection could be improved

- UI for border detection needs better controls

- Crosshairs often move when trying to position them

- Management of saved images can be problematic if not using Google photos

- App crashes frequently, especially on older phones

Top Pcmac Reviews

Great photo scanning app

By lex57ukr (Pcmac user)

It handles both gray and color photos just fine. Instructions are easy - you will be scanning in no time. It handles pictures in frames or behind the glass - its anti glare feature is awesome. I wish they had a bit better border detection as I often find myself tweaking borders for older pictures. The UI for border detection could be better likewise / provide better controls as pictures could get small while it gets harder to catch the border at such scale (with my imperfect eyesight). Still, I like the app a lot. Taking pictures in batches works faster. When scanning albums, just keep going - you can adjust borders for your batch later before saving them all in one go. This speeds things up significantly rather than taking a picture/adjusting its borders/saving one at a time.
Does the basic job.

By Rodger584 (Pcmac user)

This app does the basic function of removing parallax from a flat image and it often removes the glare. I use it primarily to scan magazine covers and important documents. A significant problem has been encountered when trying to position crosshairs, as they often move as I remove my finger from the screen. This occurs when the view changes to the overview, so the error is not detected until the image is magnified again. A second problem occurs in the management of the saved images. I do not use Google photos to store the images and so local storage is the Apple photos camera roll. When I modify an image, the app requires that I replace the existing image if I want to keep it. It would be helpful to allow replacing or adding to the camera roll or just storing locally in the App. It would also be helpful to dump local storage directly to an album and then clear the storage without losing the images from the photos app.
Pretty decent app

By Tomy tony timmy (Pcmac user)

I like this app, a lot actually. It does a good job of removing glare, but you still have to have good lighting otherwise some parts of the photo will be brighter than others. But I might just be noticing that bc I like to edit photos and can run into problems if a photo doesn’t have consistent lighting. But even with that I would still give this app five stars, except that isn’t the only issue that I’ve been having. About half the time that I’m trying to do a scan the app just quits and I am sent to my homepage. I’m wondering if this is bc I have an older phone ? I Have an iPhone 6? So is it possible that this app isn’t compatible with my phone. I’m going to give this app 3 stars, only because if it takes me 3 tries to get one scan without the app mysteriously quitting then that def leaves areas for improvement . However if I hear from support on this app who can help me resolve my issue then I will change my rating to five stars. I’ve already tried deleting and reinstalling the app once before.
Great Scanner with some limitations

By HaveeLand (Pcmac user)

I have been using this app to recapture printed photographs. The scanned images are of great quality however, just like anything else there are several factors that need to be considered such as room lighting, condition of original, size of the original, etc. The program does not have photo editing tools, but the scanned image gives you a good copy to start with if you then want to edit it. Most of the images I was able to touch up using google photos edit tools and was satisfied with the results. I am sure the images would look even better with professional editing tools but like I said, this program gives you a better starting point that just taking a picture of the original or even worse scanning the photo.