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Automatically Date Scanned Family Photos | Timeline Scan

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Automatically Date and Organize Your Scanned Photos

Every photo you scan is stamped with the day you scanned it, not the<br>day it was taken. Timeline Scan finds each photo's real date and puts<br>your collection back in order.

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All your scanned photos land here

20261955

20261962

20261968

20261971

20261979

20261987

20261996

2024

2025

2026

See them in their right place →

Hard to find. Hard to enjoy. Just sitting there, out of time.

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Pictures untouched: we only fix the dates

How It Works

Four simple steps. No technical skill needed.

Upload your scans

Drag your scanned photos onto the page: JPEG or TIFF. A single shoebox or the whole attic.

We date each photo

Handwriting on the back, printed timestamps, and film-era clues: every signal counts. Close the tab; we'll email you when it's done.

Sharpen the dates

Happy with the results? You're done. Or tag the people you know: names and birth years anchor a second, sharper dating pass. Included, and entirely optional.

Enjoy them in order

Download your photos with the real dates written inside, or send them straight to your photo app, sorted into the right years.

Your original pictures are never altered: we only correct the date stored inside each file, the same date Google Photos, Apple Photos, and Immich use to sort your library. That one fix is how we automatically organize scanned photos, in your folders and in your photo app alike.

Date estimation

How We Find Each Photo's Real Date

Wondering how we could know? Your photos already carry the clues: we read them all.

File context<br>Folder and file names

A folder named 2011 anchors every photo inside it. A filename like Jul89_001.jpg narrows just that one photo.

Visible dates<br>Front and back timestamps

Printed date stamps, lab marks, and faint back-of-photo timestamps often narrow the estimate faster than visual clues alone.

Handwriting<br>Notes on the back

Handwritten dates, names, places, and captions are read and used as direct evidence when they are present.

People<br>Faces and age clues

Tag the people you know after your first results: birth years and apparent ages rule out years that do not fit the people in the photo.

Photo content<br>Context inside the image

Clothing, hairstyles, cars, decor, print borders, color, and film character all help identify the likely era.

Sequence<br>Neighboring photos

Photos scanned in alphabetical order often belong together, so nearby files can give useful context to each other.

For the best estimate<br>Scan the backs, keep related photos in order, use meaningful folder names, and after your first results, tag the people you know with birth years.

Scanning best practices &rarr;

Getting your photos back

Download them, or send them straight to your library.

Every finished archive comes back to you. Keep the files, send them to your library, or both. They land in date order either way.

Apple Photos

iPhone app

The Timeline Scan iPhone app finds the scans stuck on the wrong date in your Photos library and writes the corrected dates back, right on your phone.

Dates fixed in place, in Photos and inside each file. Your full-size originals never leave your phone.

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Google Photos

Export only

We add your dated photos straight to your Google Photos library, in date order. Album optional.

An export, not an import: we can't see or change what's already in your library. Google accepts no face names from any app, and handwriting notes appear under &ldquo;Other&rdquo; in the info panel.

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Immich

Writes back

Import from your self-hosted server, then we write the corrected dates straight back onto your photos.

Dates, notes, rotation, and tagged faces, updated in place. Your original files are never touched.

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File Download

Always included

Save the dated originals to your computer. Organize them as you uploaded them, oldest to newest, by year, or by person.

Your Family Photos

1962<br>31 photos

1974<br>48 photos

1987<br>26 photos

Dates, notes, and names are written inside every file, so any photo app can read them. No lock-in.

See the folder layouts &rarr;

You can use more than one. Send an archive to your library and keep the download too. Not sure which fits? Compare what every option keeps, side by side.

Ready to Put Your Photos Back in Order?

Give your family photos the place in time they deserve.

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Free guides

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