scanners
Before you can cut, drop, colorize, resize, rotate, and collate pictures with a personal computer, you need a way to get them onto a hard disk. You have many options, from digital cameras to video frame grabbers, but by far the cheapest image-capture device is a scanner. There are three types of scanners available on store shelves; there is a flatbed, a sheet fed, and a photo scanner. This paper will discuss flatbed scanners because they are the most versatile type of scanners; with the flatbed, a person can scan pictures and pages from books and magazines in addition to photographs and other graphics (McNamara 40). A flatbed scanner has many uses. It can turn shoe boxes full of photos into a digital photo gallery; it can create a family or business website complete with photo and graphics; it can scan your paper documents and use OCR to convert them to files that you can edit with a word processor; it can give you occasional copies without investing in a photocopier; and a flatbed scanner can surprise grandparents with photos of the kids via e-mail (The PC Technology Guide 1). One source noted, “On the simplest level, a scanner is a device which converts light (which we see when we lo
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Approximate Word count = 1620
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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