Uses for a scanner
 

My daughter has some homework asking what can be scanned with a scanner apart from text. We can only think of barcodes and images, any other ideas anyone?? :dunce:

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me thinks back to the old 'parts of the anatomy on the office photocopier ' trick , not suitable i suspect :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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Body parts at office parties ;) :angel:

[Edit]Doh! I'm Toooooooo slooooooow.......

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Leaves, flowers, feathers............

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It depends how cruel you are ;) :)

I seem to recall there was a phase where pet owners were scanning their cats in...

edit - removed link as it was a bit ott :)

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If your daughter is young then don't give her this link, but have you checked www.boobscan.com (ps - in case you hadn't guessed, that link is not work safe!)

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Incriminating letters from a certain third-generation mobile phone network provider?? ;) :D

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Not sure that some of these can be used for homework, but keep 'em coming!!

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Also under body parts......

The local market has some woman on there doing palm readings - you stick your hand on her scanner it scans it in and she does the reading with a computer from that.

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Just been reprimanded for this! Apparently the question refers to a council wanting to scan documents on to a computer system using OCR.

Can only think of plans and photos as other types of material to be scanned, "images" seems to cover everything

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You can scann in anything you like.I am currently using mine to scan in leaves and berries so I can make my own 3D trees in Bryce.Also Somewhere I have an article in an old Computer Arts magazine that shows how to use a scanner as a sort of camera.It also has some other things you can do but
as it involves liquids and turning the scanner face down I'm kinda reluctant to try it as it's likely to damage it.


Mind I think we still have the old scanner upstairs. :idea:

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we used one at college to scan slices of bread we had made - object being an even structure with not too many 'holes' - useful for comparing different manufacturing techniques. :)

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Could use OCR to scan peoples time sheets to feed a time recording system.

Can barcode the documents you send out and then on receipt they get scanned and then linked back to the record of the person they were sent too.

Not always what you scan its how you apply it

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Do they just mean the scanner we're all thinking of???

What about passport scanners, biometrics, retena etc. even scanners on radios etc.

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I think it was for documents.

Thanks all, believe the homework has been handed in.