Large optical scanner

March 10th, 2010

A large format optical scanner is a device that can read text information or graphics, large format paper and reproduce in a format that a computer can be used. Most large format optical scanners, the data with a maximum width of 1000mm and digitize up to 5,000 mm in length. Any document that is larger than this, some parts can be scanned and then glued together with the emergence of the original.

Working in a large format optical scanner is easy. It analyzes all data, regardlessif the text or images and convert them to bitmaps. But it is mainly used to scan photos, record drawings, architectural drawings, structural details, maps of the area, landscape, design, technical drawings and construction plans. As a result, it is good to be a text document, adapted to a scanned text document can not be processed immediately. To enable editing of the scanned text, most large format optical scanners with optical character recognition is (OCR) systemconverts text into ASCII characters. Drawings of large-format digital optical capture a user can old, dirty or torn to clean. A large format optical scanner with an OCR system is also able to raise the profile to add or delete text, or remove the launch of new lines, or highlight areas, and many functions.

Large format optical scanners are available in models with flat surface and head of the most common are the paper feed scanner. Sheetscanners are excellent for paper, is less suitable for treatment of related documents, which are best for scanning using a flat bed or a model in mind. larger format optical scanners are available in both color and black and white models. Most large format optical scanners are available in the market is able to store data in two formats, TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) or PDF (Portable Document Format). Colortrac, Oce, Context, Altek Corporation, ActionImaging Solutions, Anatech, CST, Vidar Systems and Widecom are some of the leading companies producing large format optical scanners.

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