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Did you ever think of snipping something off your phone/tab screen and sharing it with someone? If yes, Snip-it comes in handy with a cool feature with which you can cut any portion of your screen. For more accurate cropping, arrange the photos in a grid with some space between them, and upright (less need to straighten). Lately, I have been using Sniptag, an app for Mac that does this in batch mode. You scan scan 4-5 photos per file, batch those files, and crop the whole batch in one go. SnipTag is a new Mac app for genealogists and photo archivists. The app is named after its two powerful tools - one for scanned photos, and one for digital photos. Snip is a powerful batch-cropping utility to speed up photo scanning. 28 McClay JL, Sugden K, Koch HG, et al. High-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping by fluorescent competitive allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (SNiPTag). Anal Biochem 2002;301:200–206. Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar.

Pic Scanner Gold saves photos only on the device with which you scan them. Since the photos aren’t stored in a server, it ensures that you have full privacy and control. However, this also means that you must periodically back up the photos on your computer, in a cloud storage service, or on another iPhone to iPad. It’s easy, and you can do it in a minute or two with our Back Up feature.

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Why back up photos?

Your scans and albums stay only on the iPhone or iPad with which you scan them. So if you lose the device, or it malfunctions, or you delete Pic Scanner from the device, you’ll lose all your precious memories. This is why backing up and saving photos off your device is essential.

When to use Back Up

You can use the BackUp feature for the following cases:

  • When you buy a new iPhone or iPad, and want to transfer photos, albums and captions from Pic Scanner Gold on old device to new device
  • To transfer photos, albums and captions from iPhone to iPad, from iPad to iPhone, or to a PC.
  • To make a back up of your photos, albums and caption on your computer or in a cloud location e.g. Dropbox, Google Photos etc.

When notto use Back Up

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This feature isn’t meant for transferring scans from Pic Scanner (our lite app) to Pic Scanner Gold on the same device. To do this, use the Migrate function in Pic Scanner.

Also don’t use Back Up to export photos to Camera Roll, Facebook, email etc. The function for this is Export. Go to Gallery or an album > tap Select > choose the photos for export > Export > select from the export options shown. For an expanded list of export options, tap Show All.

Copy from one iOS deviceto another

To transfer assets from old iPhone to new, or from iPhone to iPad, first ensure that you have Pic Scanner Gold on both devices, both devices use the same WIFI, and Airdrop is ‘on’ on both.

Launch Pic Scanner on the source device > tap Menu > Back Up. You’ll see the message below:

Select Transfer All, Selected Photos or Selected Albums. Tapping Transfer All will compress all photos, albums and captions and display export options. Selected Photos or Selected Albums let you choose which photos or albums to transfer.

In export options, the target device will appear under Airdrop. This may take 3-4 seconds. Select the target device (the device to which you want to transfer the assets. If the target device asks you to accept incoming files, do so – and everything is saved to Pic Scanner on the target device (This doesn’t overwrite any existing photos.)

Copy from iOS device to Mac

To make a full back up of all photos, albums and captions from Pic Scanner Gold on your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, first check whether or not your Mac and iOS device support Airdrop.

> For Macs that support Airdrop:

Ensure that the iOS device and the Mac are both on the same WIFI network, and Airdrop is enabled on both. Then follow Steps 2 and 3 listed above (Below are the screens and messages you will see).

Once export options are displayed, wait until the Mac appears in the list of Airdrop devices. Select it. If Mac asks you to accept the incoming file, accept. The backup is saved as a zip file on the Mac.

> For Macs that don’t support Airdrop:

Do you have an older Mac that doesn’t support Airdrop, or you can’t use Airdrop for any reason? If so, follow Steps 2 and 3 above. And then, in export options, choose Files > Desktop. The backup are saved as a zip file on the Mac. Save the zip file backup in iCloud, Dropbox or another cloud service, and give it a name you’ll remember, should you need to restore from it.

To view the photos on Mac and share them, unzip the backup. The unzipped folder will contain a number of files and sub-folders. Click open Splitted_Images, and you’ll see all the photos from Gallery screen on Pic Scanner Gold.

Copy from iOS device to PC

In Pic Scanner Gold, tap Menu > Backup >Transfer All, Selected Photos or Selected Albums > > Transfer to: iCloud/Cloud services > When export options are shown, select Dropbox (or any other cloud storage service) > a zipped folder containing all photos from the selected album will be uploaded. After the upload is complete, you can access the cloud service from your PC, unzip the folder, and copy the photos to any location you want.

How often shouldyou back up files?

Whenever you scan photos, create or edit albums or captions, your app data changes – and this is the trigger to make a new backup. Keep two or three recent backups, because more is better than less! It’s fast, and once you’ve unlocked Back Up, you have unlimited use of this feature.

Restoring photosfrom backup to iPhone or iPad

If you lose or damage your iPhone or iPad, or delete Pic Scanner Gold from your iOS device, you can restore all app data using the last backup on your Mac. Here’s how:

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  1. Locate the latest backup on your Mac, and change its file extension from .zip to .psmf. You may get an alert asking you to confirm the change – accept it.
  2. Ensure that the iOS device and the Mac are both on the same WIFI network and Airdrop is ‘ON’ on both. Install Pic Scanner Gold on the iOS device.
  3. Send the .psmf file to iPhone or iPad via airdrop. If the iOS device asks whether to accept incoming files, accept. Pic Scanner Gold is automatically launched on the iOS device and the backup extracted into the app.

If anything is unclear or you get stuck somewhere, please email us via the app.

Have you seen our new app SnipTag yet?

SnipTag for Mac is the world’s only app for cropping entire batches of multi-photo scans with one click. Scan in JPG, PNG, TIFF or BMP formats at ANY resolution! And you can add captions and metadata to photos with voice dictation. Start a free 3-day trial now, because there is no other app so useful for your paper as well as digital photos!

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Export photos and videos from Photos on Mac in year, album or date-wise folders. Copy them in neat folders on Mac, Google Drive, Dropbox, external drive or anywhere else. For Intel and Silicon Macs, and macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra.

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Select source, destination and click Export. That’s it.

Of course, you can further refine the export options with a few more clicks. Choose whether to transfer year wise folders or also month-wise sub-folders. Retain or remove metadata. Extract originals or the latest edited versions. Keep your custom arrangement of photos in albums (in Catalina and Big Sur), or revert to Photos’ chronological ordering. Only photos, only videos or both.

All years, all albums, all moments or only selected ones.

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Click any of the 3 top level buttons i.e. Years, Albums or Moments (Dates) to see all the folders in that category. Select the ones you want copied. Everything in Photos app remains intact, while your selection is exported smoothly. You’ll love the ease and convenience.