flatbed scanner

noun

1. a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.

Example Sentences

Last year, an archivist located the negative and brought it to one of Bettman’s labs, where she placed it on a flatbed scanner.

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You can scan photos by buying an inexpensive flatbed scanner or use an app on your smartphone such as HP Smart.

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The years-long, labor-intensive process of converting paper graphics into digital data required a small squadron of undergraduate assistants and a special flatbed scanner, but when it was done, Bromirski had a solid record of wave activity along the California coast stretching back to the Great Depression.

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If you already have a flatbed scanner for documents and photos, check your model’s manual to see if it can handle slides and film negatives, as some include that ability.

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The notable photographs and prints are Franz Jantzen’s stitched-together vision of a multi-mooned night sky, viewed through oaks and Spanish moss; Colby Caldwell’s near-abstract tree trunk, digitized with a flatbed scanner; and Tanya Marcuse’s update of “The Book of Miracles,” a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, that arrays plants and snakes on a coal-black backdrop.

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