{"slug": "timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos", "title": "Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos", "summary": "Timeline Scan launches an AI-powered tool that automatically corrects the dates on scanned family photos by analyzing handwriting, timestamps, and visual clues, restoring chronological order to photo libraries without altering original files.", "body_md": "### Upload your scans\n\nDrag your scanned photos onto the page: JPEG or TIFF. A single shoebox or the whole attic.\n\nFor Your Scanned Family Photos\n\nEvery photo you scan is stamped with the day you scanned it, not the day it was taken. Timeline Scan finds each photo's real date and puts your collection back in order.\n\nYour photo library without Timeline Scan\n\nHard to find. Hard to enjoy. Just sitting there, out of time.\n\nFour simple steps. No technical skill needed.\n\nDrag your scanned photos onto the page: JPEG or TIFF. A single shoebox or the whole attic.\n\nHandwriting on the back, printed timestamps, and film-era clues: every signal counts. Close the tab; we'll email you when it's done.\n\nHappy 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.\n\nDownload your photos with the real dates written inside, or send them straight to your photo app, sorted into the right years.\n\nYour 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](/organize-scanned-photos/), in your folders and in your photo app alike.\n\nDate estimation\n\nWondering how we could know? Your photos already carry the clues: we read them all.\n\nA folder named `2011`\n\nanchors every photo inside it. A filename like `Jul89_001.jpg`\n\nnarrows just that one photo.\n\nPrinted date stamps, lab marks, and faint back-of-photo timestamps often narrow the estimate faster than visual clues alone.\n\nHandwritten dates, names, places, and captions are read and used as direct evidence when they are present.\n\nTag 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.\n\nClothing, hairstyles, cars, decor, print borders, color, and film character all help identify the likely era.\n\nPhotos scanned in alphabetical order often belong together, so nearby files can give useful context to each other.\n\nGetting your photos back\n\nEvery finished archive comes back to you. Keep the files, send them to your library, or both. They land in date order either way.\n\nThe 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.\n\nDates fixed in place, in Photos and inside each file. Your full-size originals never leave your phone.\n\nWe add your dated photos straight to your Google Photos library, in date order. Album optional.\n\nAn 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 “Other” in the info panel.\n\nImport from your self-hosted server, then we write the corrected dates straight back onto your photos.\n\nDates, notes, rotation, and tagged faces, updated in place. Your original files are never touched.\n\nSave the dated originals to your computer. Organize them as you uploaded them, oldest to newest, by year, or by person.\n\nDates, notes, and names are written inside every file, so any photo app can read them. No lock-in.\n\nYou 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](/export/compare/), side by side.\n\nGive your family photos the place in time they deserve.\n\nPhotos still in boxes? [We scan prints in Lehi, Utah →](/scanning)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos", "canonical_source": "https://timelinescan.com/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 20:25:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 20:55:21.842819+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "computer-vision", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Timeline Scan", "Google Photos", "Apple Photos", "Immich"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/timeline-scan-ai-fixes-the-dates-on-your-scanned-photos.jsonld"}}