digital scanner
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈdɪdʒɪtəl ˈskænər/
:
escáner digital
- I used a digital scanner to create a high-quality PDF of the document.
Examples
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Now the thermal fax is a forgotten luxury, replaced by digital scanners, PDF and JPG files, and email.
Blog text (19) -
Others used digital scanners and Adobe Photoshop to manipulate graphics.
Academic text (2005) -
The digital scanner captured every detail of the painting, making it easy to share online.
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With the help of a digital scanner, I transformed family photographs into digital files.
Synonyms
357
3.3
An electronic machine that detects information, for example radar or a device that makes digital pictures of papers
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3.8
A machine that reads printed pages and saves them as computer files
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3.5
A portable device you move by hand to take a picture of a document or barcode
A machine that turns a paper picture or document into a computer file
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an electronic device that creates a digital version of an image or document' is directly and compositionally derived from 'digital' (relating to electronic/numeric technology) + 'scanner' (a device that digitizes information). This straightforward noun-noun compounding follows common compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound digital scanner mixes digital, meaning made of numbers, with scanner, a machine that 'scans' a page like your eyes moving across it. So it paints a picture of a device that 'reads' a document line by line and makes a 'digital copy', which is why it means an electronic device that creates a digital version of a picture or paper.