What is a Image scanner?

Recently, multifunction devices equipped with printers, copiers, image scanners, and even telephones and fax machines have become popular models of printers, and image scanners have become more familiar than in the past. As an outline of the function, the printer prints images and sentences from a PC etc., while the image scanner saves the printed matter etc. at hand as image data on a PC etc. If you use software called OCR (Optical Character Reader), you can convert the text read by the image scanner into text data, which improves the convenience for computer input.

Application of Image scanner

A general image scanner is used for the purpose of capturing printed matter, photographs, etc. as image data on a PC. Since multifunction devices with printers have been distributed at low prices, they have also been used at home. In addition, the combined use of OCR software has made it easier to digitize paper media, and it can be said that the field of activity is expanding in terms of organizing and managing past data.

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