Photo Scanner Pro: Scan Albums

For most of my career, I have worked in graphic design and the media. When I discovered this software, I thought I’d give it a try, and tried similar ones. This one stuck around. When I started using it, I really took to it. It is so easy to use. I have no complaints. It’s great for scanning documents and photos. The real trick is putting scan items on a contrasting background, contrasting from the edges of your item (i.e., dark surface for white or light edges or photos with white borders, and bright backgrounds for darker photos, etc.). Over the years, this app has helped so much, when I went through old family photos in my mother‘s house, to share them with the family. It has also been a great use for documents, from sharing business letters with ease, capturing receipts, family recipes, legal documents, and anything else. The resulting image files are far better than having to slap them on a flat scanner and scan them that way, or ship them off to have somebody else do the same thing. The huge value is in the memories, the record-keeping, and the sharing.If it’s perfectly square, it’s a lot closer than with the straight camera. It provides a great result almost every time. And if I have to do it again, it’s still much easier than the alternatives, unless you have the time or patience for other ways.

This app does a really nice job creating “scanned” copies of photos. Get those old photos out! It’s not exactly as quick and easy as the ad makes it out to be, but it’s still very easy. The more time consuming part is going through each photo and cropping, if you want more polished pics.

Tried Google photoscan, tried Apple scan…hands down Unfade Pro beats them all in terms of performance and ease of use.

I rarely take the time to write reviews, but I wanted to thank the developers. To my fellow photo documentarians, this app is the best of its kind, and it merits praise. My rating is authoritative, as I have tested over 100 photo scanning apps, from the Apple App Store (e.g., Adobe Scan, Scannable, Scan Thing, SnapScan, BaiOCR Text grabber scanner, etc...). This app is the only app that is not only affordable, but that has a simple and easy to use interface. The other scanner apps cannot handle bulk scanning, and crash after loading 50 or more photos (even the ones with exorbitantly high subscription fees). So aggravating. This app has the power to scan 458 photos at once, and automatically saves your work. With no hidden fees, I can’t say enough good things about this app. I wish I’d of found it sooner. Thank you to the developers.

Update (2023-11-07): I checked the website and it is possible to use photos already taken! You just can’t import from the app. You have to open Photos and then share into the app. Adding a star for making this possible but I had to do research and check the FAQ to learn this. They should add this into the app as a feature. Update (2023-11-06): It’s been multiple years and there still is no way to use photos that have already been taken instead of from the camera. This is baffling to me. Original review: Amazing app that would get five stars except for one thing: you can only modify photos you take with the camera. You can’t choose photos that you’ve already taken in the past and saved

App won't focus on photos anymore for some reason, so all scans are blurry. Used to work great.

Disappointment

This app is amazing! It’s not perfect by any means but it takes about 5 mins to get through over 40 photos, which would take so much longer to individually scan into a computer. So easy and automatically crops them for you. Just amazing. Now I can help my family digitize our (thousands) of photos from growing up for cheap!!

You can only fix photos that you can use your phone’s camera on. I have like thousands of digitized photos that I would like to fix but can’t unless I print them messed up, then take a picture of them. This is stupid.

App seems to do nothing beyond what stock iOS photo app does. Stay away!