CamScanner adds enhancement feature

GaryPageau

Global scanning app CamScanner has launched a major update:  a new “portrait enhancement” feature. The long-awaited upgrade enables users to bring their old, low-quality, and damaged photos back to life through a variety of enhancement and colorization features. The new functionality was made globally available on April 18 on the CamScanner app for iOS and Android.

With Portrait enhancement, users can:

  • Enhance and add definition to portraits
  • Automatically detect and repair scratches
  • Complement facial details and enhance skin texture
  • Lossless enlargement of small-sized photos (2x or 4x)
  • And colorize black-and-white photos

Upon installing or updating the app, users can access the new feature by first tapping the camera icon then scrolling to the ‘Portrait enhancement’ tab. There, they can upload or take a photo, confirm the cropping range, then tap to start repairing. Once it has finished repairing CamScanner will send a preview, where users can move the slider to compare the new, repaired photo with the old photo. Users of the free version of CamScanner will be allowed 10 trial scans with full feature availability, while premium accounts will have unlimited access.

First released in 2011, CamScanner is a mobile application allowing iOS and Android devices to scan images and documents. The app comes with deep editing capabilities, allowing users to extract text, make annotations, and add watermarks or signatures on their documents, while supporting a variety of conversions between file formats.