Document Scanning - Buyers Guide

Document Scanning Terminology

Achromatic Color: Refers to the colors of light used by document scanners; red, blue, green and red.

Automatic Document Feeder: A device allowing the scanning of multiple pages by feeding the scanner with the required pages.

Bleed: Image that overruns to the edge of the page.

Burn: Darkening a certain part of an image.

Carriage: Component of the scanner that captures the image.

Crop: Page trimming.

Dropout Color: Color invisible to the image scanner.

Gang Scan: Multiple scanning of images at the same time.

Highlight: Brightest sections of an image.

Hue: A pure color.

Interrupt: The microprocessor is stopped by a signal and is instructed to perform a different activity.

Luminance: The intensity of an image.

Mask: Covering a part of the image while performing other activities on the page.

Monochrome: When the page has one single color.

Palette: Set of colors available for producing an image.

Preview Scan: Initial scan that allows for an accurate definition of the final scan's location.

Rescale: Resizing an image.

Thumbnail: Miniature recreation of the page that gives a preview of the final results.

Vector Image: The beginning and ending points of each line define the image.

Zoom: Enlarging a certain section of the image.

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