Question Getting a quality result scanning a photo: can it be done?

[gf1701]

I’ve been using an old scanner to scan my photos to jpeg, and while the scanner still works, the scans are not sharp. I mentioned this to a friend who has an iPhone, and she told me that she uses her phone to scan prints, and it does a great job. She showed me some examples. Indeed, they were better than what I get with my scanner. I have a Samsung S23+. I’ve scanned documents with my phone, and while the results were useable, they were inferior to what I get with an actual scanner, so I never thought of scanning my photos with the phone. Now I tried it with my S23. The results were very poor, extremely blurry on a 1:1 scale. I tried both Photo Mode and Pro Mode with the Camera app, getting the same results. So is this something that Android phone cameras can’t do, or is there a way to get a good scan result for a photo on the S23+?

 

[rvbfan]

I'm not sure about this but are you able to download google photo scan? Not sure if it's a pixel exclusive or not.
It does a very decent job.

 

[B. Diddy]

Have you tried Google's PhotoScan app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner&hl=en_US

EDIT: Whoops, rvbfan just beat me! I can confirm that it's not a Pixel exclusive -- it can be installed on my backup HMD Vibe.

 

[gf1701]

I'm not sure about this but are you able to download google photo scan? Not sure if it's a pixel exclusive or not.
It does a very decent job.

Great suggestion (from both of you)! Yes, I was able to install the app and the results are far better than when using the Camera app. But the results with my old scanner are a bit better, so I will use them for the rest of my photos. But Photo Scan will come in handy at other times.