flat-bed scanner

British

noun

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

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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.

From Forbes

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.

From Reuters

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