PhotoScan by Google - Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future

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Here's a great video explaining the tech at a high level:
Does this let you assign date and location to the scan?
You can edit the date/time once uploaded to Google Photos
Really spectacular job. My wife will be all over this once the holidays are over.
Images on Google Photos can be uploaded to Google Drive in the app. Many photobook services allow photos to be uploaded via Google Drive.
Amazing, love love the video! any reason this is put in a standalone app instead of integrated with Google Photos? Do we expect to see more standalone apps from Google Photos?
Classic Google. Probably a different team working on each app.
We think that scanning photos isn't something you'll do daily -- it's more like something you'll do a handful of times when you get access to the printed photos. So it didn't make much sense to incorporate directly into Google Photos. Plus, this lets us offer PhotoScan to people who aren't yet using Google Photos.
probably because you don't need it nearly as often as a regular photos app.
We'll do separate apps if/when it makes sense, but no specific plans atm.
Nope, it's us :)
As we don't have the budget of Slack for taking out an ad in the NYT the "Unfade" team welcomes you here on Product Hunt. Great addition to the space!
"The Unfade team welcomes you here on Product Hunt for only $4.99" and that's a really big difference for a lot of people
PH is probably not the right forum for a pricing discussion. Shoot me a DM on Twitter, I am always happy to discuss this topic.
Tried PhotoScan now and really disappointed with output quality, and from reading a few other reviews I'm not the only one (on iOS the native camera app takes much crisper photos of photos, glare be damned). Have you compared Unfade quality with PhotoScan, how do you guys compare?
Pretty cool! I wonder if it works on documents too, I know that's not an intended use case though. What it does: • Detects edges to rotate and correct perspective • Removes glare What it doesn't do: • Remove dust and scratches I'm still waiting for Google Photos/Snapseed to get some kind of noise reduction
Dust and scratches are definitely things we're studying.
Last week I was scanning photos and trying to recover them in Photoshop. The "Dust & Scratches" tool worked surprisingly well. The other major step was removing fading.
I like to use Office Lens for documents and whiteboard:
This would be amazing, look into reading the IR channel :)!
Or CamScanner -- One of the original whiteboard scanning apps and it's awesome!
Out of interest, does photo processing happen on device/offline or online?
It all works offline. Why? Well, when you go home to grandma's and want to scan all those old photos, what are the chances the internet is blazing? :)
Awesome. Makes sense, just had to check, thanks! :)
is there any other privacy or data capturing info to be aware of?
Happy Unfade user, works with all clouds
Are there any plans on applying the underlying technology to document scanning? Scanning cards, passports etc is super painful with every app I've tried.
We're focused on photos but it works pretty well on any rectangular image
How does the image processing handle height? (e.g. Photo with curled edges)
We haven't invested too much in severely curled edges, but I think there are things we can do.
Scanbot it's the only one that I still have installed after iPhones and years have passed, dont use it that much though
How was this not a thing already? bye iPhone, I like where this pixel is going.
They released it for iPhone and Android haha
So this is not available yet?
It's rolling out now on both app stores
- great video, and a kickass product to boot. I think the scanner is really innovative - reminds me of holding down to shoot videos type of innovation.
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