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David Lieb

PhotoScan by Google - Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future

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Ben Tossell
Excuse my language but this is shit-hot Great choice of background music in the video too 🔥
Ryan Hoover
@bentossell "People took REAL photos, printed on actual paper."
Will Schwarz
@rrhoover @bentossell There was a time when pictures didn't move?!
Ben Tossell
@rrhoover wtf is that?!
Hugo Fauquenoi
@bentossell Took me a while to remember the song! https://youtu.be/atEx6ZOX51s
Tamas Ratkai
@rrhoover @bentossell OMG this just sounds so unreal! :D:D:D Like before the cars people were riding horses. Funny as hell!
David Lieb
Maker
Here's a great video explaining the tech at a high level:
Narendra Rocherolle
@dflieb Does this let you assign date and location to the scan?
Steven Diffey
@narendra @dflieb You can edit the date/time once uploaded to Google Photos
Aneela
@dflieb this is great to back up old prints. But the bigger issue is digital photos are stuck and essentially any app is a graveyard. Does googlephotos have integrations to make printed scrap books. I dont want my 3yo staring at a computer screen. And honestly neither do i!
Ross Rojek
@dflieb Really spectacular job. My wife will be all over this once the holidays are over.
Daylen Sawchuk
@ak310i Images on Google Photos can be uploaded to Google Drive in the app. Many photobook services allow photos to be uploaded via Google Drive.
Nikunj Kothari
Amazing, love love the video! @dflieb any reason this is put in a standalone app instead of integrated with Google Photos? Do we expect to see more standalone apps from Google Photos?
wojtek
@nikunj @dflieb Classic Google. Probably a different team working on each app.
David Lieb
Maker
@nikunj We think that scanning photos isn't something you'll do daily -- it's more like something you'll do a handful of times when you get access to the printed photos. So it didn't make much sense to incorporate directly into Google Photos. Plus, this lets us offer PhotoScan to people who aren't yet using Google Photos.
William Pitcher
@nikunj @dflieb probably because you don't need it nearly as often as a regular photos app.
David Lieb
Maker
@nikunj We'll do separate apps if/when it makes sense, but no specific plans atm.
David Lieb
Maker
@dubstrike @nikunj Nope, it's us :)
Christoph Wagner
As we don't have the budget of Slack for taking out an ad in the NYT the "Unfade" team welcomes you here on Product Hunt. Great addition to the space!
Vahagn Mkrtchyan
@wagca "The Unfade team welcomes you here on Product Hunt for only $4.99" and that's a really big difference for a lot of people
Christoph Wagner
@icyber0n PH is probably not the right forum for a pricing discussion. Shoot me a DM on Twitter, I am always happy to discuss this topic.
Slaven Radic
@wagca Tried PhotoScan now and really disappointed with output quality, and from reading a few other reviews I'm not the only one (on iOS the native camera app takes much crisper photos of photos, glare be damned). Have you compared Unfade quality with PhotoScan, how do you guys compare?
Tom Bielecki
Pretty cool! I wonder if it works on documents too, I know that's not an intended use case though. What it does: • Detects edges to rotate and correct perspective • Removes glare What it doesn't do: • Remove dust and scratches I'm still waiting for Google Photos/Snapseed to get some kind of noise reduction
David Lieb
Maker
@tombielecki Dust and scratches are definitely things we're studying.
Tom Bielecki
@dflieb Last week I was scanning photos and trying to recover them in Photoshop. The "Dust & Scratches" tool worked surprisingly well. The other major step was removing fading.
Antonin LAPICHE
@tombielecki I like to use Office Lens for documents and whiteboard: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
Nijiko Yonskai
@dflieb @tombielecki This would be amazing, look into reading the IR channel :)!
Wayne Lewis Jr.
@airlikidh2 @tombielecki Or CamScanner -- One of the original whiteboard scanning apps and it's awesome!
Seb Jachec
Out of interest, does photo processing happen on device/offline or online?
David Lieb
Maker
@iamsebj It all works offline. Why? Well, when you go home to grandma's and want to scan all those old photos, what are the chances the internet is blazing? :)
Seb Jachec
@dflieb Awesome. Makes sense, just had to check, thanks! :)
jeff!
@dflieb is there any other privacy or data capturing info to be aware of?
Frank Thelen
Happy Unfade user, works with all clouds
Sam Wilkinson
@dflieb Are there any plans on applying the underlying technology to document scanning? Scanning cards, passports etc is super painful with every app I've tried.
David Lieb
Maker
@sammycdubs We're focused on photos but it works pretty well on any rectangular image
Sam Wilkinson
@dflieb How does the image processing handle height? (e.g. Photo with curled edges)
David Lieb
Maker
@sammycdubs We haven't invested too much in severely curled edges, but I think there are things we can do.
Agusti Fernandez Pardo
@sammycdubs Scanbot it's the only one that I still have installed after iPhones and years have passed, dont use it that much though
Mariana Montes de Oca
How was this not a thing already? bye iPhone, I like where this pixel is going.
Tom Klaver
@heymarimon They released it for iPhone and Android haha
Joshua Dance
So this is not available yet?
David Lieb
Maker
@joshdance It's rolling out now on both app stores
Rory O'Reilly
@dflieb - great video, and a kickass product to boot. I think the scanner is really innovative - reminds me of holding down to shoot videos type of innovation.
Chuck Kahn
What it also needs to do is determine the date the photo was taken and embed that into the EXIF data of the scan.
Gabriel Delattre
Well, tested and not approved. Really slow on iOS 10 with an iPhone 6S. Quality is poor: - glare present without flash - out of focus on some point - not sharp and clearly not High resolution except in the pixel dimension :) On this google product the promise is not here.
Nico Bistolfi
Loved the racoon
Matt Gardner
Does the Play Store link fail for anyone else?
David Lieb
Maker
@thatmattgardner It's rolling out, so might take a bit
Logan Chadde
@thatmattgardner should be available now: https://goo.gl/xeHOrj
Lewis Holland
@dflieb awesome video and looking forward to using it!.
Andreas Duess
Fun video, but the actual opposite is true - if you want to keep a photo forever you don't scan it. Because in a hundred years from now, the jpg standard won't be around anymore. Hell, google might not be around anymore. A well developed photo, on paper, will be. Apart from that minor niggle, this looks like a kick-ass product.
Robin Solis
@andreasduess aren't we spose to dunk the photos in milk to keep them from fading?
Pietz Prove
im totally in love with that girls voice & mood
Chuck Kahn
App didn't remove my flash when "scanning." https://goo.gl/photos/jVxZayMapv...
Gabriel Delattre
@chuckkahn yes, and try to print back that poor quality...