Bring memories back to life by taking your old pictures into the future. We tested three popular photo scanning apps against a scanner.

School photos and wedding photographers now offer you the rights to digital images for an additional fee. But using Google PhotoScan and your smartphone, you may be able to create your own digital ...

The Smartphone Method As with prints, you can “scan” a slide or negative with your smartphone by taking a picture of it or using one of the many slide/film-scanning apps.

The app uses what Adobe calls "advanced image-processing technology" powered by Sensei, Adobe's artificial-intelligence and machine-learning arm, to take a photo and turn it into a PDF.