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Input Devices - Scanners |   |
Hardware - Peripherals
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Scanners allow information such as a photo or text to be input into a computer. Scanners are usually either A4 size (flatbed), as shown below, or hand-held to scan a much smaller area.
If text is to be scanned, you would use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program to recognise the printed text and then convert it to a digital text file that can be accessed using a computer.  A flatbed scanner used for digital image input
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