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Scanners
This category concerns machines that have the capability of taking a photo of a physical document and transcribing it to a digital copy.
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Scanners
planetary scanner
Office equipment; Scanners
A planetary scanner is a type of image scanner for making scans of rare books and other easily damaged documents. In essence, such a scanner is a mounted camera taking photos of a well-lit ...
orbital scanner
Office equipment; Scanners
A orbital scanner is a type of image scanner for making scans of rare books and other easily damaged documents. In essence, such a scanner is a mounted camera taking photos of a well-lit environment. ...
drum scanners
Office equipment; Scanners
Drum scanners capture image information with photomultiplier tubes (PMT), rather than the charge-coupled device (CCD) arrays found in flatbed scanners and inexpensive film scanners. Reflective and ...
image scanner
Office equipment; Scanners
An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Modern scanners typically use a charge-coupled device (CCD) or a ...
desktop scanner
Office equipment; Scanners
It is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. In this kind of scanners the document is placed on a glass window for ...
flatbed
Office equipment; Scanners
It is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. In this kind of scanners the document is placed on a glass window for ...
hand-held scanners
Office equipment; Scanners
A hand-held scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image.In thsi kind of scanners, the device is moved by hand.
