meaning of scanner
1. scanner 1. An input device that takes in an optical image and digitises it into an electronic image represented as binary data. This can be used to create a computerised version of a photo or illustration. A scanner may be linked to optical character recognition software allowing printed documents to be converted to electronic text without having to type them in at a keyboard. 2. lexical analyser.
2. a radio receiver that that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for for some signal or condition; "they used scanners to monitor police radio
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