Digitize your paper photos

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After the Flood

If you have been through a flood, you may be relieved if your precious family photos survived undamaged but what if the next flood is higher and submerges everything? And if your photos have been submerged and you’ve been able to restore them, the next enemy is mould, which can cause irreversible damage. Digitising your precious photos and saving them to cloud storage via Google Photos, Facebook or Instagram means that they can still be viewed and enjoyed even if the paper originals are destroyed or damaged.

ImageSplit can do this laborious work for you in bulk by splitting up and optionally colourising a scan of multiple images. Your photos can be individual prints or you can work with camera images of photo album pages or framed prints. You can adjust individual split brightness, contrast and sharpness to make your digital versions look even better than the original. Splits are automatically de-skewed and you can choose between two different automatic photo detection methods , or you can define splits manually. The colourise option uses state-of-the-art AI methods to add colors to your black and white images as shown below.

Split subdivision allows you to quickly process negative strips, contact sheets or any rectangular array of images. Click here to see the ImageSplit user manual.


If you need to add editable, 2-part captions to your splits, Caption Pro includes ImageSplit. Caption Pro includes face recognition, aspect ratio adjustment, and addition of a second image (such as the reverse of a paper photo which may contain valuable annotation). A video of Caption Pro used for this purpose is here.