Google's new PhotoScan app is an incredibly easy way to digitize old, printed photos The free app launching Tuesday on iOS and Android uses Google's powerful machine learning to turn print photos into digital pics in seconds. PhotoScan works like magic and produces a reflection-free image. You start by taking a photo of the picture you want to digitize, and then the app overlays four circles on top of the image. Simply move the circle outline above the four circles displayed on the photo until they turn blue, and voila, you've got a perfectly scanned photo. But how's the app actually producing a reflection-free digital scan? The answer is pretty simple: The app is actually taking four different photos when you match the circles up and then composites each photo into one final image, intelligently omitting out the areas that are overexposed (white) while cropping and auto-rotating it. There are also tools for more advanced users who want more control over the cropping. Let's hope this allows many more people to easily "digitise" those old photos lying in shoeboxes under their beds. There probably can't be any easier way than this to do it! See http://ift.tt/2eX5F5m. More details too on Google's own website at http://ift.tt/2eX9nMp.
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