flat-bed scanner

noun

1. a computer-controlled device which electronically scans images placed on its flat plate, allowing them to be stored in digital form

Example Sentences

He has also been first to market with “the first CCD flat-bed scanner and first omni-front optical character recognition,” according to NBC News.

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Scanning paper is normally a tedious process with each page having to be inserted into a flat-bed scanner, but the team led by professor Masatoshi Ishikawa use a high speed camera that takes 500 pictures a second to scan pages as they are flipped.

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