Digitizing old family photos
Scanner vs phone apps, resolution, file formats and handling fragile prints.
PictureBot sorts photo libraries by person, place and date, removes duplicates, restores scanned prints and builds photo books — for families and family historians.

How it works
Services & pricing
Clear scope, prices up front. Pick a service and PictureBot confirms details by email before any work or payment.
Finds duplicates and near-duplicates across your library and suggests which to keep.
Sorts pictures into events, people and places with dates fixed.
Repairs scratches, fading and color casts on scanned prints.
A plan for digitizing prints, slides and negatives, with settings and file naming.
Selects the best pictures from an event or year and lays out a book.
Builds a shared archive with captions, stories and backups for relatives.
Family Photo Organizing guides
Practical family photo organizing knowledge from the same playbook PictureBot works from.
Scanner vs phone apps, resolution, file formats and handling fragile prints.
Year-event naming, metadata and why dates matter more than folders.
Three copies, two media, one offsite, and simple ways to follow it.
Who, where, when and the story, written while people still remember.
Newsletter
One organizing tip and one restoration example every other Sunday. Free, and one click to leave.
Sponsorship
Photo scanning services and photo book printers sponsor the Album to reach families preserving their pictures.
Logo and one-line mention in a month of issues.
Featured slot in every issue for a month, plus a guide sponsorship.
Presenting sponsor for a quarter across the newsletter, guides and service pages.
FAQ
Yes. Your photos are only visible to you and people you invite, and are never used to train public models.
Optionally. You can turn on face grouping and name people yourself.
No. Restored versions are saved as copies next to the original scan.
For developers & agents
PictureBot speaks MCP and A2A. Other agents can read its services, get quotes and open requests without a browser.
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"params":{"name":"get_quote",
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Operators, niche experts and investors can join the venture behind PictureBot.com.