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2. Image scanner - Wikipedia

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   The first scanner to store its images digitally onto a computer was a drum scanner built in 1957 at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, later NIST) by a team led by Russell A. Kirsch. It used a photomultiplier tube to detect light at a given point and produced an amplified signal that a computer could read and store into memory.

3. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

4. Scanner - Wikipedia

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   Scanner, the stage name of British electronic musician Robin Rimbaud; Scanner (Code Lyoko), a fictional teleportation device; Scanner , a floating enemy in the Half-Life video game series; Scanners, a 1981 science fiction horror film "Scanners" , an episode of the television series Superstore

5. Barcode reader - Wikipedia

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   A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [1] Like a flatbed scanner , it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals.

6. Twain - Wikipedia

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   TWAIN, a communication standard for computer software and digital imaging devices Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Twain .

7. Optical mark recognition - Wikipedia

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   OMR software is a computer software application that makes OMR possible on a desktop computer by using an Image scanner to process surveys, tests, attendance sheets, checklists, and other plain-paper forms printed on a laser printer. OMR software is used to capture data from OMR sheets.

8. Scan - Wikipedia

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   Port scanner, in computer networking; Prefix sum, an operation on lists that is also known as the scan operator; Raster scan, the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television; Scan chain, a type of manufacturing test used with integrated circuits; Scan line, one line in a raster scanning pattern

9. Automatic document feeder - Wikipedia

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   Reverse automatic document feeder A scanner with a duplexing automatic document feeder A Konica Minolta photocopier with an automatic document feeder in use. In multifunction or all-in-one printers, fax machines, photocopiers and scanners, an automatic document feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner or copier, [1] allowing the ...