Each of the following (listed in no particular order) has unique and useful aspects to help you scan photos using a smartphone/tablet. All in all, it takes around 25 seconds to scan one photo—15 for aiming the camera and 10 for PhotoScan to processing. Versus many other apps, PhotoScan’s results maintain much better quality/sharpness despite the tendency to come out slightly more exposed. You can view each scanned photo, adjust corners, rotate, and delete as necessary. When ready, one press of a button batch-saves all the scanned photos to your device. Download For: Photomyne excels at automatically detecting edges, cropping, and rotating photos – you can still go in and make manual adjustments if desired. There’s also the option to include names, dates, locations, and descriptions on photos. The overall color accuracy is good, although other apps do a better job at minimizing the amount of noise/grain. Photomyne limits the number of free albums for non-subscribing users, but you can easily export (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.) all digitized photos for safekeeping. Download For: MS Lens is simple and straightforward; there’s minimal settings to adjust and only manual rotating/cropping to perform. However, scans done using MS Lens tend to be sharper, with image resolutions two to four times greater (based on the camera’s megapixels) than those by other apps. Although dependent on ambient lighting, the overall color accuracy is good—you can always use a separate photo-editing app to fine-tune and adjust photos scanned in by MS Lens. Download For:
