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2. Image scanner - Wikipedia

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   Alexander Murray and Richard Morse invented and patented the first analog color scanner at Eastman Kodak in 1937. Intended for color separation at printing presses, their machine was an analog drum scanner that imaged a color transparency mounted in the drum, with a light source placed underneath the film, and three photocells with red, green, and blue color filters reading each spot on the ...

3. 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

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Radio scanner - Wikipedia

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   A radio scanner or simply scanner is a radio receiver that can automatically tune discrete frequencies, scanning over a frequency band to find a signal until the initial transmission ceases.

7. Scanography - Wikipedia

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   Using a flatbed scanner to scan items other than paper documents exceeds the original purpose of the scanner, so special care must be taken with the process. The bed of the scanner is typically made of glass, and care needs to be taken that the glass not be scratched or cracked when placing or removing items on the bed. Since the items to be ...

8. Fingerprint scanner - Wikipedia

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   This type of scanner tends to excel in terms of precision. Ultrasonic fingerprint scanners use high frequency sound waves to penetrate the epidermal (outer) layer of the skin. Thermal scanners sense the temperature differences on the contact surface, in between fingerprint ridges and valleys.

9. Duplex scanning - Wikipedia

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   Duplex scanning is a feature of some computer scanners, and multifunction printers (MFPs) that support duplex printing.A duplex scanner can automatically scan a sheet of paper on both sides.