Photo Scanner Plus Reviews

I have close to 500 old photos that I've been meaning to scan and put in a photo album for my mom for this Christmas. My husband suggested I try one of those apps that will scan and enhance my photos so I stumbled upon PhotoScannerPlus, I even bought it because the video looked so awesome. On my phone the picture scanning deal became a breeze and I was amazed how great they look after automatically been fixed. It wasn't until upload the images to a photo book creating website and started creating the album when I noticed all the photos are very grainy and blurry. I work with photoshop and realized that this apps corrects the scanned photos by aggressively sharpening the image which resulted in grainy and in some cases pixelated images. They do not look good at all, in the real photos you can see detail, in the scanned version you lose detail and get that awkward grainy/blurry look. I guess that's what happens when I tried a shortcut. Thai app is only good if you want to save your old photos to upload to social media or your computer. Print quality is very low.

Thapp is a great timer saver and I think I will use it a lot. I have a lot of printed photos that I need to digitize. A lot of them are in books. The plastic pages cause glare, so you really have to take them out of pockets or open the cover. In the old books once you open the plastic many of them will not restick.

Most irritating thing to me is the picture you scan does not show after you scan it. So, to know if you scan is good you have to close scanning and go to the top of the pictures to see it.

There several other things that need improvement but I can’t think of them right now, oh yeah, even when you get them out from behind plastic it is still difficult to place the oictures so they don’t pick up glare.

Once I figured out a way to take photos without glare, I found PhotoScannerPlus makes excellent scans of my photos. I got a frosted plastic storage box and cut a small hole in the bottom to take the scan through. I covered the bottom of the box with black tape and cut out the hole in that as well. Then I turned over the box and scanned my photos through the hole. The black tape makes no reflection, and the clear sides of the box let in light to get a good scan. I’m glad I found PhotoScannerPlus and would gladly give it five stars except for the incessant pop ups asking me to subscribe. I would gladly pay a one time fee for PhotoScannerPlus considering the limited use I need it for, but I don’t want a monthly or yearly subscription. The developer deserves to make money, but with that as the only option, I couldn’t pay them. My punishment is lots of annoying pop ups.

I’m rewriting this review after using PhotoScannerPlus a bit more and getting to appreciate a little better what it does. I’ve used it off and on for a while but didn’t want to pay what I thought was too much for an app with somewhat limited editing (compared to others like Snapseed, Artstudio, and others. PhotoScannerPlus does however do “its thing” so well, it deserved another look and higher rating. It makes capturing and restoring old images relatively easy as long as the images a somewhat decent to start with. I use Photoshop a lot to do serious restoration work. It’s tough to beat PhotoScannerPlus though if the images are in relatively good condition to start with.
The automatic colorization feature will blow your mind! Yikes! Not sure how it’s done (it takes me hours in photoshop). The results from PhotoScannerPlus are pretty astounding for a press of a button.

Now over 11,000 old photos scanned since 2016!
It started as a way to store all my parents old slides and photos so I didn’t have to store all of their albums. It escalated from there into my personal family photos as well as my husbands. This would never have been accomplished using my flatbed scanner.
The ability to share all these images with out-of-town family members using the web feature is wonderful. And there is the option to identify each photo with pertinent info, if you so choose. The list of features goes on. Can’t say enough good things about PhotoScannerPlus.
I would like to see features added. The option to alphabetize albums by TITLE would be a great help rather that just by date. When dealing with so many albums the ability to have different collections or groups , or albums within albums would be nice to separate families. Just the ability to custom arrange albums would be a helpful feature in keeping different family albums separated.

I had not used PhotoScannerPlus in a while but tonight pulled out old picture prints from before digital cameras that I want to put on Facebook and send to my friends as well. However I needed to get them onto my phone as well as my computer. PhotoScannerPlus allows me to do so. It’s so easy to do and what is great is if a particular picture is really old and is not as crisp and clear it actually enhances the photo when you scan it. The scanned photo looks better than the original print. Lets say you want to put the picture in a frame you can use the scanned picture instead of the original print. It’s just a great app, easy to use and I highly recommend it.

So glad I found this easy to use efficient app. So much better than scanning pictures on a scanner bed. After scanning the pictures, I can discard the originals. It’s so easy to share them on the internet or put them on a thumb drive. I’ve scanned hundreds of pictures, even ones from before 1900, and all are of good quality. My only frustration has been to ensure that I don’t have shadows from my phone or extra light or glare when I’m using my phone camera. I love that I can scan up to four pictures at a time and if I’m not completely happy; rescanning is quick and easy. I’ve recommended PhotoScannerPlus to friends and family.

All good BUT… The popup upgrade page when you use the $3.99 paid app every time, is VERY ANNOYING. TURN THAT FEATURE OFF PLEASE. If I want your subscription I can add it but don’t remind me every time I use the otherwise great app.

Would prefer that the initial scan just give me the entire scan and then let me edit afterwards. I’m scanning side-by-side stereo pairs on glass slides and PhotoScannerPlus scans and crops each picture separately. I just want PhotoScannerPlus to scan the entire image with the enhancement feature. I can get to the original scan but PhotoScannerPlus makes me crop it manually so it takes way too long to process.

Love PhotoScannerPlus! It has made scanning family photos, which there are a few of thousand, so much easier. It really works well with their FilmBox and SlideScan apps too. I love that I can place pictures into various albums. The only thing I don’t like is if you describe the picture in one folder (ie, who is in the photo, location and year), the description does not carry over to another folder if you’re moving or copying the picture, which creates a lot more work. But scanning photos, slides and negatives using all three apps has been wonderful and wouldn’t use any other app unless the description carried over to another folder.

I have been working to extract photos scrapbooked years ago back into digital format. They were cut up and creatively arranged and I didn't see how I was going to do it until Photomyne. Photomyne scans full pages even through page protectors, corrects the color and determines how to define each photo separately. I still have to go into each page and redefine edges because mine are a jumble of overlapped images, but once I do that and save, I have all of my photos to save to my PC. It's really quite amazing and a true timesaver. Highly recommend. My only wish list items are to arrange them in the order Id like before downloading and to be able to define the naming scheme.

I am a big time photo person and for some reason I can not get rid of any photos that I have taken and Photomyne has been the best scanner I have tried. Scan, adjust, colorize, edit, photo the back side that has important information or inscriptions written by loved ones and when I am done I can send to the people I know will enjoy them. Description is on the front with a listing of any person in the photo and place taken, date and much more. One of my favorite features is the ability to type in someone’s name and it will pull up the photo of the person you are looking for. Name, place, date just search. Love PhotoScannerPlus.

I used PhotoScannerPlus a lot more some years ago because I was taking pictures and downloading pages from old picture albums where taking the pictures out of them plastic pages was impossible. While the quality taking them through the plastic wasn’t great it really did a great job and separated out each picture individually so I could crop, enhance, and move them. I also like the feature where you can add info about each picture. So helpful. I am so glad I did so many of my albums and saved them to PhotoScannerPlus. I was getting near the end..only a few more to go and our home and everything in it burned to the ground in the fire that destroyed our town of Paradise in 2018.

We have tens of thousands of photos and 3/4 of them are pre digital. Last year we spent a lot of time sorting and selecting 3000 photos to mail off and be scanned. About a month later, we got them back with 2 CDs of the scanned photos. (1500) on each CD.
My lap top computer does not have a CD reader. So I can only access them on my old computer or a borrowed one.

Yesterday I scanned an entire album of 400 photos from college in half an hour. Then enjoyed scrolling through the album of that scan session on line with my daughter and husband. Too easy, so accessible and I can't wait to get through all of my photos and have access to them from any of my devices!
This is so awesome!

I have thousands and thousands of photos from our six children growing up. I spent most of the day yesterday looking through one batch of photographs when our children were young. I sent out photos to all of the kids, who are now grown with families of their own. If there were several of them in a photo I sent to all of them at once so I saw their responses and their conversations about the photos coming back to my phone as well. It was such a fun day, reading all of their memories and seeing how they laughed and joked about things. What wonderful family connections were made because of PhotoScannerPlus! In my estimation if you hold the phone very still, and you are in good light, the scanner does nearly as brilliant a job as My full-size expensive scanner. I have not tried printing them, so I have no opinion on print, but for sharing on social media or sending pictures to others, it’s just wonderful and fun thing. Karren in Sandy Utah

I’ve been using Photomyne for several years now, and now have over 25,000 scanned photos. Not only have I scanned my own, I also scanned photos from both sides of my family. Thousands of photos. My friend also asked me to scan all of her photos so I scanned hers too! I’m very happy with PhotoScannerPlus , I only wish I had PhotoScannerPlus when I first started digitizing all my old photos - I did those on a conventional flat bed scanner and still need to crop them apart in a photo editor on my desktop. Thanks for continuing to make PhotoScannerPlus better all the time. I’ll keep recommending Photomyne to all my family and friends. Sometimes years goes by and a friend or family member will ask me to remind them of PhotoScannerPlus I always rave about.

I have so many pictures from my ancestors in albums and many are loose in shoeboxes. This application allowed me, with minimum effort, to capture entire pages of albums, then edit and document (comment) those pics that I desired and share with the rest of my family.

It has an outstanding photo capture mode that all you need to do is to shoot a whole page of photos with your cell phone and it separates every picture individually. I recommend it to anyone that wants to save hundreds of decaying pictures for posterity and enjoyment of the extended family.

I am interested in cresting e-scrap books but I do not think PhotoScannerPlus provides that capability. Still, it is worth the little investment since it saves hundreds of dollars if you were to do it through a photo copy service.

I have used PhotoScannerPlus during Covid 19 while I was sorting and purging 40 years of photos. It is easy to use and the photos look good. I sent several of the photos via text to my son-in-law. He was a creating photo book online to present to my daughter for her 40th birthday. The pictures looked awesome in the book. It sure was easier than scanning them into my computer. I am 66 years old and I find it to be senior friendly. I like that I can save them to different albums! My only complaint is I get the reflection of my phone on the glossy prints. I do the scanning in all different locations through my house at different times of the day to find the right lighting that keeps it to a minimum. I don’t think it’s PhotoScannerPlus , it’s the glossy prints. Keep that in mind when you use PhotoScannerPlus.

I recently lost my uncle to cancer. We were faced with the task of transferring a couple hundred photos of him during his lifetime to display on poster boards for his wake and funeral. Many of these photos were glued into old albums and would have been ruined if we attempted to remove them. Your app was the amazingly simple solution! In less than one day, we were able to capture all these photos, unharmed, and upload to a website to be printed into huge collages for display. In addition, we wanted to display a large 11x14 photo of just my uncle, but one didn’t exist. With PhotoScannerPlus, I was able to snap a small 3x5 picture of him and then print a huge 11x14. I didn’t think it would look anywhere near as good as it did...we framed it and it looked great! Photomyne was the perfect, quick solution to a task that could have taken days to do!

This is a fairly good app for a new program. There are several shortcomings which I'm sure will be overcome with maturation. One is the inability of PhotoScannerPlus to rotate to the landscape position. I use an iPad Pro and the screen is not hinged to rotate since it is tied to my keyboard. Therefore it is important to me that PhotoScannerPlus rotate. second, I had a difficult time logging in since I initially logged in with Facebook, and found I could not easily re-log in with my email and password. Technical support was needed for this simple task. Third, not all photos are auto-cropped when scanned. I lost a few when I didn't realize that the corner (or small portion) of a photo was auto-cropped as its own photo. The whole photo might have included 2 or 3 smaller crops as possible individual photos, but we're not useable as such.

I rarely download an app I have to pay for and usually find what I need available for free. This is one of the few apps I own that is a paid app, and it is well worth it! It does exactly what it says it will do, and makes it so easy to scan and digitize old photos. You can easily touch up and restore a photo from an old photo album, without having to take the photo out of the book, and with filters you can restore it to better than the original. You can blow it up, crop it, and make it a better shot. And it looks fantastic. Great job guys! I love your app and highly recommend it!