| ◎Digital camera: 
This allows the scanning of different sizes of
        originals ◎Drum scanner:
source material is placed on a drum which is then
        rotated past a high-intensity light source that captures
        the image.  Drum scanners tend to offer the highest image quality,
        but require flexible source material of limited size that
        can be wrapped around a drum. ◎Flatbed scanner 
Source material is placed flat on the glass and
        captured by CCD arrays that pass below it.  Flatbed scanners require source material to be no
        larger than the glass and to lie face-down and flat. CCD Array: Charge-coupled device array.
        Light-sensitive diodes used in scanners and electronic
        cameras. These usually sweepacross an image and, when
        exposed to light, generate a series of digital signals
        that are converted into pixel values. ◎Slide scanners: 
Slide scanners can generally scan only 35-mm
        transparent source materials.  ◎Video frame grabber:
It is attached to a standard video camera.  Anything that can be filmed by a video camera can be
        digitized by a video frame-grabber, including
        three-dimensional objects and motion video.  It is limited by video image quality.  |