flatbed scanner
Americannoun
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Last year, an archivist located the negative and brought it to one of Bettmann’s labs, where she placed it on a flatbed scanner.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
This permits the book to be properly scanned into a digital image without pressing it flat on a traditional flatbed scanner and possibly damaging its spine.
From Washington Times • Apr. 30, 2017
Kurzweil is a lifelong fixer and optimizer: early in his career, he invented the flatbed scanner and a machine that reads books aloud to the blind.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
Ms. Taylor uses a flatbed scanner, a computer and Photoshop to manipulate 19th-century photographs and prints, as well as her own photographs, into images like this.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2015
It seemed promising, but anything could be faked these days with a PC and flatbed scanner.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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