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AAS

Short for Auto Area Segmentation

2. Scanner allows a user to take an image and/or text and convert it into a

digital file.
3. Image A computer generated graphic or modified picture that appears onscreen. 4. Image editor Software program used to edit or otherwise manipulate an image or graphic. 5. Picture a visual capture of an object. 6. Pixel comes from the words Picture Element (PEL).

7. A pixel is the smallest portion of an image or display.

8. PICS 9. ISIS Short for Platform for Internet Content Selection Short for Image and Scanner Interface Specification

10. OCR Short for Optical Character Recognition or Optical Character Reader 11. Optical reader found within most scanners that captures information on paper and translates that image into digital information 12. Optical scanner is Hardware input device. 13. A scanner is commonly connected to a computer USB, Firewire, Parallel or SCSI port 14. Scan head is the physical portion of a flatbed scanner. 15. Scan head moves slowly across the bed, scanning what is on the scanner. 16. Spatial digitizer used to input a three-dimensional object into a computer. 17. TET Short for Text Enhancement Technology. 18. TET allows scanned OCR documents to be read easier and with fewer er 19. TWAIN was developed in 1992 by the TWAIN. 20. TWAIN is a standard interface for scanning equipment