Scanners

Scanners are relatively cheap, ours cost around £75 each. They also come with useful free software. Scanners are a form of camera using a moving light sensitive scan head similar in mechanism to a photocopier. Objects, images or text are placed face down onto the glass plate, the scanner makes a pass and the visual information is translated to into a digital information which can be opened up into a variety of computer software for further editing and manipulation on screen.

Scanned object