Polar

In plain words

Polar is an iOS app for digitizing instant photographs quickly. Users place a Polaroid photo in front of their phone camera, and the app automatically detects it, adjusts perspective, and saves a high-quality digital scan to their photo library. It's designed for people who want to preserve physical instant photo collections in digital format without manual scanning equipment.

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From the sources

Polar is an instant photo scanning app which allows you to digitise your collection in seconds. Put an instant photo in the frame of your camera, Polar detects it and just tap to save it to your library. Perspective will be automatically adjusted and a high-quality digital scan will appear in your phone photo library.

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