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

One is a $140 digital scanner while the other is a free app called SlideScan. The app is unique in that all you need to scan your slides is your iPhone or Android.

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 ...