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A scanner is used to input paper documents or photos into the computer. They are typically "scanned" as images (like pictures) and stored in TIFF, GIF, or JPG format, and can also be scanned into the Portable Document Format (PDF), or converted to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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∙ 10y agoThere are hand held scanners on the market that can be used to scan documents. These are also called portable scanners and they are available at stores such as Tiger Direct and Best Buy. These range in price depending on the quality of the scanner.
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∙ 10y agoA computer scanner is a device that when hooked up to a computer can take a physical image or document and process it into a code that the computer can take a recreate the image or document into a virtual image that can be changed, emailed or stored for future use.
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∙ 13y agoIt scans text or pictures and stores it into a computer in the form of a digital image.
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How do you scan a document to a computer?
Use a computer scanner.
What is the practical uses of a scanner?
well the use of a scanner is to put stuff on your computer that you cant
What is the practical uses of scanner?
Well the use of a scanner is to put stuff on your computer that you cant
What are the use of computer peripheral device?
Printer, Scanner
What type of technology does fingerprint scanner use?
The computer
Who is the father of computer scanner?
The first image scanner developed for use with a computer was a drum scanner. It was built in 1957 at the US National Bureau of Standards by a team led by Russell A. Kirsch
How can you prevent your computer from becoming a zombie computer?
Use a firewall and a good virus scanner.
What is the use of scanner?
Well the use of a scanner is to put stuff on your computer that you cant
Why we use the scanner?
to avoid virus from your computer and protect it for a long time from the dangerous disease scanner is a type of antivirus pratham
What is the purpose for a photo scanner?
The purpose of a photo scanner is to scan photos. If you do not know how to download your pictures onto the computer or your picture is not on your camera so you cannot download it, you are able to scan your picture into the computer. On the computer, you can photoshop your picture or post it on a website. So, in order to get your picture onto the computer, you may need to use a photo scanner.
Is an scanner an output device?
No, it is an input. The data goes in to the computer from the scanner, not out of the computer to the scanner.
Why was the scanner made?
A flatbed scanner was made so that text from a sheet of paper could be transcoded into digital formats for use on a computer.
