As a way of copying things with more detail , and in a more compact than a standard copier, which performs basically the same.
flatbed scanner invented in 1975 by Ray Kurzweil
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Martin Annis was the inventor of the full body scanner.
Norman Joe Woodland
Lindsey Maresh did.
The Barcode Scanner was Invented and Patened in 1952 by Norman Joseph Woodland of Ohio, USA
Rudolf Hell invented the digital scanner.
The first patent for a scanner was issued in October 1950. However, the first commercially successful flatbed scanner was introduced by the company Kurzweil Computer Products in 1984.
The CAT scanner, or CT (computed tomography) scanner, was invented by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield and German physicist Allan Cormack. Their pioneering work in the early 1970s led to the development of the first practical CT scanner, which was introduced in 1971. Hounsfield and Cormack were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 for their contributions to medical imaging.
John Daugman was the inventor of the iris recognition system.