About
Glossy album sleeves are the reason photographs of old albums come out ruined. One lamp or one window puts a white streak across four pictures at once, and every scanner on the shelf either asks you to pull each print out of its sleeve or sells the glare removal back to you as a cloud credit. Glareless takes the streak out on the device, as part of the scan, with the page still in its sleeve. You sweep the page three times, tilting a little left, straight on, then a little right. The reflection moves when you move and the photographs do not, so for every pixel there is a pass that saw it cleanly, and Glareless takes it from there. A live heat map shows where the glare is sitting before you press the shutter, and the three passes are registered by warping each one onto the same rectangle from its own detected page edge, so no feature matching is involved and nothing about the result depends on the lighting being kind. The passes are blended on a Laplacian pyramid, which is what keeps a weight boundary from turning into a visible seam, and a coverage map counts how many passes saw each pixel cleanly: when a hot spot stayed burnt in all three, the app says so and asks for another sweep instead of handing you a page it could not fix. Then it finds every print on the page, straightens it, corrects its perspective and saves it as its own photograph, so one sweep of a four print page gives you four pictures rather than one picture of a page. Colour is measured, not guessed: the white border of an old print was paper white when it was made, so the cast it carries now can be read off it, and the app removes exactly that and nothing else. It does not invent colour, it does not repaint faces, and a print with no usable border is reported as such and left alone. Turn a print over and scan the back and the app reads the lab stamp or the handwritten date, shows you what it read, and files the photograph in your library on the day it was taken rather than today. Everything happens on your iPhone. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and there are no credits of any kind.
Features
- Three guided passes fused into one page, with the glare taken out on the device
- A live glare heat map while you aim, and a coverage map that admits what it could not fix
- Every print on the page found, cut out, straightened and saved as its own photograph
- Colour corrected against the print's own white border, measured rather than invented
- The date read off the back of a print, confirmed by you, written as the photo's own date
- One album at a time, page after page, then exported to Photos or Files in one step
- No account, no upload, no cloud processing and no credits: it all runs on your iPhone
- Scanning one print at a time, with the full glare fusion, has no limit