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Google Debuts 'PhotoScan' App for Scanning Old Photos With iPhone
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That's actually a pretty cool app and worked really well when I tested it against an old framed print behind glass
Trust me, with Google the paranoia is warranted.
Not in the app, I scanned a few and as they uploaded to my iCloud photo library I added the relevant meta data, dates and locations, in the Mac photos app. Nice thing about the Photos app is being able to select many at once and editing meta data for a batch of photos.
That's about it. Connecting consumers to past brands, as those "lost" customers can be very valuable targets. Nostalgia is a powerful marketing tool.
Soylent Green is people, and all that. Who want's to be another man's raw materials?
I know on the web version of photos you can modify the date, I have not tried the location
Great so Google can now datamine photos of people from times before the internet exsisted.
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They could do a lot of things perhaps build a giant database of individuals and use it to track people even more than they already do. The possibilities are endless.
With that who cares mentality why have locks on our doors and shades on our windows. Who cares what could happen. Who needs privacy!
Even more than they already do? If they can already track you do really think you're old photos are going to help more??
This is an awesome idea, and quite frankly, love that it's from Google. Google, unlike Apple, plays nice with others. Google allows me to have an iPhone yet still use their products & services. That's all I want.
I tried it on a few old photos....
The quality is certainly better than if you "wing it" and take a photo of a print without worrying about lighting and such. But it's inferior to a regular photo of a print taken under good lighting conditions, and FAR inferior to a scanner.
Basically, use this to share your old photos with friends and such, but don't rely on it to digitally archive your old prints. Even a cheap scanner from Walmart will be FAR superior.
The quality is certainly better than if you "wing it" and take a photo of a print without worrying about lighting and such. But it's inferior to a regular photo of a print taken under good lighting conditions, and FAR inferior to a scanner.
Basically, use this to share your old photos with friends and such, but don't rely on it to digitally archive your old prints. Even a cheap scanner from Walmart will be FAR superior.
They could do a lot of things perhaps build a giant database of individuals and use it to track people even more than they already do. The possibilities are endless.
With that who cares mentality why have locks on our doors and shades on our windows. Who cares what could happen
Okay, so let's say they're tracking you. How is that affecting you negatively? Because they use the info to target an ad to you personally so that you see ads you actually care about instead of random things that are irrelevent to you? Oh the horror.
I have 0 concerns about Google watching me, the government watching me, etc. I'm not doing illegal things, and therefore have nothing to hide.
Oh wait. Don't tell me. Let me guess. And just a exactly how is Google making money off of this? Oh wait. Don't tell me. Let me guess.
Instant download.
I use Genius Scan for scanning documents and it's THE BEST,up until now used it for photos too but the option PhotoScan provides makes it better for photo scanning.
I use Genius Scan for scanning documents and it's THE BEST,up until now used it for photos too but the option PhotoScan provides makes it better for photo scanning.
Sure a dedicated scanner is probably the best but you know what they say, 'The best scanner is the one you have with you'. In most cases it would be an iPhone with this app.
Same exact problem for me. Tried 5-6 pictures in different lighting and orientation the last or the two last circles just fly away to some other land
Just remember you can only scan and print photos that you took. Any professional photographer's photos you will need to contact them and request more prints. You are not allowed to duplicate them without permission.
I know at Walmart they have a policy that if you bring in a photographer's photo and you can't provide proof that you are alllowed to duplicate it they will shred the original.
You should hear the customers screaming and death threats at the staff when they try to bypass the copywrite laws and sneak one through.
You don't own the photographs from them, only license to receive copies only from them, they still belong to the photograph studio. You also can't post them on fb or online without permission.
I know at Walmart they have a policy that if you bring in a photographer's photo and you can't provide proof that you are alllowed to duplicate it they will shred the original.
You should hear the customers screaming and death threats at the staff when they try to bypass the copywrite laws and sneak one through.
You don't own the photographs from them, only license to receive copies only from them, they still belong to the photograph studio. You also can't post them on fb or online without permission.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I believe fair use allows you to scan/print photos for your own personal use.
Also, I HIGHLY doubt Walmart would destroy a customer's property like this. Do you have any links? Imagine the lawsuit that would result if they shredded someone's only copy of a priceless photo.
It's ok. Washed out an image and had a lot of glare for another. The lighting conditions will make a huge difference. If I need to adjust the light might as well use the scanner. But not bad just in my limited test not great. But I took no time to set up the images and lighting just dropped onto a table and used the app.
That’s such a nihilistic and sad way of looking at this. You find it fine to allow Google to use your data in whichever way they please, as long as they use plain English to explain it to you?
Fortunately, not everyone thinks like this and I think that it is good that people reject Google outright, however amazing their features.
Lemme get this straight;
You have no desire to do business with Google.
You don't trust Google what so ever.
But you suck it up and download. Way to have the courage of your convictions. Some comments sound as mealy mouthed as the ones coming from a company that promised to go thermo nuclear but still used another company for their maps and search and stil pay them millions of dollars a year for analytics. You know, Company A thinks Company B uses business methods that go contrary how they might do things themselves but still buy their mined data anyway which then gets used by their purposely shortsighted customers.
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Can you elaborate here?
Can you post one, just one substantiated link about how someones data was mined and sold and who to? One?
Also, can you tell me what Apple do with your data?
Can you tell me how they talked their way around the old iPhone tracking issue that made it Ok.
Whoa! I paid $4.99 for Pic Scanner Gold (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-scanner-gold-scan-photos/id1124131441?mt=8) just 2 days ago, so when I saw this story on the Google app, I said what a bummer and let me get a refund. Then I downloaded Photoscan and played a bit. And my verdict: I'll stick to Pic Scanner. Sure, it's early days for Photoscan and I'm sure Google will make it better, and it's free, BUT:
- Pic Scanner Gold can scan 2-4 photos in one shot, and separates and crops them by itself. That makes it 2-4x faster
- Its editor toolkit is FAR FAR superior to Photoscan's. I even use it for imports from Photos app.
- I can add notes to photos (either embossed on photo itself or saved to meta data)
- Can make photos into greeting cards. App has many card templates, and that alone is worth the app's price
- It has a really cool slideshow mode that I love
I am not too spooked about Google getting my personal photos, but with Pic this issue also goes away. One nice feature of PhotoScan is flash correction, but I also find scanning in daytime gives more realistic colors.
Bottom line, I will keep both apps. Pic because I prefer it, Google because it's free.
- Pic Scanner Gold can scan 2-4 photos in one shot, and separates and crops them by itself. That makes it 2-4x faster
- Its editor toolkit is FAR FAR superior to Photoscan's. I even use it for imports from Photos app.
- I can add notes to photos (either embossed on photo itself or saved to meta data)
- Can make photos into greeting cards. App has many card templates, and that alone is worth the app's price
- It has a really cool slideshow mode that I love
I am not too spooked about Google getting my personal photos, but with Pic this issue also goes away. One nice feature of PhotoScan is flash correction, but I also find scanning in daytime gives more realistic colors.
Bottom line, I will keep both apps. Pic because I prefer it, Google because it's free.
Yep. Pretty much.
No worries though, already deleted. Really didn't work that impressively in my attempts.