Articles on Scanners

How to Scan Large Amounts of Text to a Computer

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Scanning a text is easy to do as long as your equipment is compatible. Text scanning is also called OCR scanning and allows you to convert pages of text into a text file that you can edit on the computer. Microsoft Word is software that is used ... more »

How to Scan Photo Negatives Using a Flatbed Scanner

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Produce beautiful color or black and white photos by scanning negatives in a flatbed scanner. Recreate lost photos or make copies of existing photos... more »

How to Prepare Paperwork for Scanning

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Think of a scanner as a copy machine that makes digital copies instead of paper copies. Many flatbed scanners look like copy machines with a glass that you put paperwork on, a lid to close and a light that runs across the paper. The scanner takes ... more »

How to Set Up Your Desktop PC for a New Scanner

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Once upon a time, scanners were expensive and finicky pieces of equipment. These days, many printers include scanners in their multi-function machines, and installation is as simple as running the installation program on your PC and plugging in ... more »

How to Set Up Your Mac Laptop for a New Scanner

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Want to email your daughter’s crayon drawing to Grandma? Upload your latest masterpiece to the Web? Show your best friend the pattern of your new wallpaper? A flatbed scanner makes it easy. Installing a flatbed scanner used to be one of the major ... more »

How to use scanner using your adobe photoshop

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This is how you scan photos/articles using your adobe photoshop.. more »

How to Buy a Computer Scanner

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You thought buying a scanner would be easy, but when you browsed the computer peripherals aisle, the choices were staggering. There are expensive scanners, cheap scanners, ones that print and read media cards and yet others that accept ... more »

How to Buy a Fingerprint Scanner

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Fingerprint scanners provide businesses and individuals with a perfect way to increase security. Most scanners can operate off of a USB port, are easy to set up and inexpensive to use. If you are considering buying a fingerprint scanner, there ... more »

How to Buy a Fingerprint Software Development Kit

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Every business and security conscious organization will have different needs when it comes to identifying clients and employees. The internal IT departments of these companies can create their own fingerprint and biometric scanners that will ... more »

How to Buy Biometric Signature Recognition Products

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As we become more of a paperless society, it is often the need for a signature that creates the reams of paper produced in business today. The development of biometric signature scanners is taking over in many industries such as banking, law, ... more »

How to Calibrate a Scanner

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Scanners are used to upload your photographs to the computer. If the colors are off then you must calibrate your scanner. Follow these steps to learn calibration... more »

How to Choose the Best Data Collection Technology

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Since the advent of modern technology, many more options for collecting and processing data have been utilized than ever before. From the average person who owns a home computer printer and scanner to the largest corporation using ... more »

How to Get Rid of Paper - For Good!

By Marina Martin

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Save valuable storage space, breeze through your tax returns, and protect your important documents from floods and fires by moving to a paperless filing system... more »

How to get rid of spyware

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Most people hate when the computer get a virus well get rid of that virus forever... more »

How to Get Top-Notch Scans

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Scanners are a great way to transfer photographs to your computer, but getting the best results requires both skill and experience. The skills aren't tough to learn, though, and the experience can be fun... more »

How to Hook up a Scanner to a PC

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Connecting a scanner to a computer can be as easy as one, two, three with a little know-how. Follow the steps below to hook up a scanner, and you'll be able to scan documents, papers and pictures. Some scanners follow a different set of ... more »

How to Increase the Range of a Radio Scanner

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Radio scanners allow increased public involvement in the security and safety of the community. The scanner helps you to monitor the police and fire departments, aviation activity, 24-hour weather alerts and utility companies working in the area. ... more »

How to Set Up Your Desktop Mac for a New Scanner

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A flatbed scanner lets you digitize all your photos, scan documents with your signature or turn your artwork into digital files that can be uploaded to your Web site. Installing a scanner to work with your Mac desktop computer is a breeze... more »

How to Troubleshoot a Scanner

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When you own a computer scanner, you may encounter problems from time to time. Common scanner issues include failure to operate and distorted images. Instead of taking the device to a computer repair shop, you can perform some troubleshooting at ... more »

How to Troubleshoot the Scanner on an All-in-One Printer

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Troubleshooting the scanner of an all-in-one printer is a straightforward process of elimination. You begin at the most basic level, striking off those issues that are not the problem and work your way up the ladder of complexity until you have a ... more »

How to Use an Iris Recognition System

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As security becomes more of an issue in the world today, technology is catching up to the growing needs for better identification systems. Many people's facial features are quite distinct, and now optical and audible systems can identify them. ... more »

How to Use the CanoScan 30

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Scan photos, copy papers and send email with the CanoScan 30. Make anything that fits onto it a digital copy that you can edit and save to CD and your hard drive. It is truly as easy as a press of a button once you set up your preferences and ... more »

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