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image scanner - an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

digital scanner, scanner

data input device, input device - a device that can be used to insert data into a computer or other computational device

electronic device - a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically

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To date, Leventi has made images of about 40 opera houses, all on a grand scale and all displaying the feel for symmetries of a photographer who describes himself as 'a Virgo who tends to compartmen-talize and order things." Just using a theatre's ambient and house lighting, Leventi typically exposes negatives for two to four minutes, then puts the negatives on a drum scanner to digitize the image.

Picture perfect

All the systems have been proposed to images obtained with a special scanner such as a drum scanner or a film scanner.

Extraction of features for diagnosing pneumoconiosis from chest radiographs obtained with a CCD scanner

The digital capture equipment used includes five flat bed scanners (Creo iQsmart range), a Hasselblad Flextight film drum scanner, and a range of digital cameras (Canon, Sinar and Betterlight).

New home for the digitisation and photography branch

* Drum scanner. For best results, artwork must be flat, flexible and limited in size to 18 x 24 inches or so, depending on the type of the scanner.

The ins and outs of producing limited editions: when it comes to producing museum-quality prints in a home studio, there is a great deal to consider

Auckland City Libraries went about it this way because the most detail could be captured by taking an analogue photograph of each map and then scanning these highly detailed positives on a drum scanner (a Howtek 7500).

Bits of real estate: digitizing the church map collection of heritage maps at Auckland City Libraries

Improvements led to the first color scanners and recorders, with scaling and color-correction capabilities, and to the first laser drum scanner, in 1970.

Rudolf Hell dies at 100

Printing houses typically have an expensive drum scanner, while flatbed scanners are less expensive and adequate for desktop uses.

Marketing Demystified

uses six PowerMacs, three Quadras, a Screen drum scanner, Screen imagesetter and Kodak Contract Approval System for its prepress work.

Commercial printing ... setting the standard for the industry