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I tried this but the resulting image either still had glare or was super low-quality. Too bad, really hoped it would work.

by welder 10y ago

mlok 10y ago
Same conclusion for me. I had much better results using the default photo app, while taking care of avoiding glare.
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ehsankia 10y ago
Have you tried it again recently? The new update allows for higher quality.
- welder 10y ago
  Nope, tried it last 4 months ago.
tempestn 10y ago
Yeah, just tried it. It was good enough that I would use it if I was at a friend's house or something and wanted to take a picture of a picture, but otherwise I'd use a scanner. Far better quality, both in terms of sharpness and colour balance.
- mavhc 10y ago
  What I really want is a sheet feeding photo scanner that scans the front and back and won't destroy old photos, or even better, a company that will rent me one for a few months. Then I can scan the 1000s of photos my parents have, and send it back.
  - tempestn 10y ago
    That would be handy. You would think such a thing must exist. There are certainly companies that will digitize all your photos for you, including some cleanup in editing software, but I believe they charge ~ $0.75/photo. Anyway, they must have some decent hardware. I just finished scanning a batch of my old high school photos, but I didn't take a lot, so it was only a few hundred. Managed to fit three at a time on the bed of my all-in-one printer/scanner, but it was tricky because there was a dead zone along the edges, so they had to be in the middle, but spaced out enough that the software could auto-crop them. Still not TOO bad, but I wouldn't really relish doing it for thousands.
  - lfowles 10y ago
    Doesn't seem like an insurmountable task for a week of netflix and a ScanSnap scanner[0]. Personally, I have the s1300i and scanned thousands of pages of notes. [0]: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/ http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scan...
    - mavhc 10y ago
      I looked at the ix500, but couldn't find much in the way of people using it with photos, a) quality, and b) how well it handles photos rather than paper
vanderZwan 10y ago
How did you hold the phone? Based on the article you'd think it works better if you held the phone at a slightly different tilt every shot, to ensure non-overlapping glare
ggambetta 10y ago
Same - blurred patches, and generally very low resolution :(

I tried this but the resulting image either still had glare or was super low-quality. Too bad, really hoped it would work.

by welder 10y ago

I tried this but the resulting image either still had glare or was super low-quality. Too bad, really hoped it would work.

mlok 10y ago

Same conclusion for me. I had much better results using the default photo app, while taking care of avoiding glare.

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ehsankia 10y ago

Have you tried it again recently? The new update allows for higher quality.

welder 10y ago
Nope, tried it last 4 months ago.

tempestn 10y ago

Yeah, just tried it. It was good enough that I would use it if I was at a friend's house or something and wanted to take a picture of a picture, but otherwise I'd use a scanner. Far better quality, both in terms of sharpness and colour balance.

mavhc 10y ago
What I really want is a sheet feeding photo scanner that scans the front and back and won't destroy old photos, or even better, a company that will rent me one for a few months. Then I can scan the 1000s of photos my parents have, and send it back.
- tempestn 10y ago
  That would be handy. You would think such a thing must exist. There are certainly companies that will digitize all your photos for you, including some cleanup in editing software, but I believe they charge ~ $0.75/photo. Anyway, they must have some decent hardware. I just finished scanning a batch of my old high school photos, but I didn't take a lot, so it was only a few hundred. Managed to fit three at a time on the bed of my all-in-one printer/scanner, but it was tricky because there was a dead zone along the edges, so they had to be in the middle, but spaced out enough that the software could auto-crop them. Still not TOO bad, but I wouldn't really relish doing it for thousands.
- lfowles 10y ago
  Doesn't seem like an insurmountable task for a week of netflix and a ScanSnap scanner[0]. Personally, I have the s1300i and scanned thousands of pages of notes. [0]: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/ http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scan...
  - mavhc 10y ago
    I looked at the ix500, but couldn't find much in the way of people using it with photos, a) quality, and b) how well it handles photos rather than paper

vanderZwan 10y ago

How did you hold the phone? Based on the article you'd think it works better if you held the phone at a slightly different tilt every shot, to ensure non-overlapping glare

ggambetta 10y ago

Same - blurred patches, and generally very low resolution :(