The scan head is moved under the glass. Flatbed scanners often come with sheet feeders for scanning multiple sheets of paper rather than one at a time. Contrast with "sheet-fed scanner," which ...

Photo scanners can be faster than other options, such as flatbed scanners, and you don't need to use a computer to scan—while you're sitting in the living room watching a movie, you can convert ...

What if you need to do it on the cheap? A flatbed scanner would be perfect, but the lip on the edge of most flatbed scanners keeps the document from touching the platen properly. [Matthew] decided ...

small computer systems interface (SCSI), universal serial bus (USB), and IEEE 1394 or FireWire (Apple Computer). There are many types of image scanners. Examples include drum scanners and flatbed ...