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scanner

[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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That’s because LLMs are far more user-friendly than a scanner or TV that requires what she called a “born-to-it comfort with tech” to operate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

A robotic voice tells me to stay still and close my eyes as I stand in a huge curved scanner while classical music plays in the background.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

The patents cover both the scanner design and the image-processing techniques, including the NN developed by Alonso-Monsalve.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Police scanner audio obtained by news outlets showed emergency responders arriving at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. for a report of chest pains; CPR was underway roughly 25 minutes later.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

He walks to the spot the scanner indicates and begins pummeling its surface with his drill.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Zebra Technologies, which makes bar code scanners and printers, concluded in the second quarter that it was likely to get a refund of all $73 million in past tariff payments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

More police forces are adopting A.I. facial scanners; the tech is being piloted in schools, buses, and stores as well.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

The latter is usually responsible for security at airports in the United States, with fans and media having to go through airport security-style scanners.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Today, lasers are used throughout modern society, from supermarket barcode scanners to vision correction procedures and advanced scientific instruments.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

The only thing they would actually pack carefully into boxes, at the last possible moment, were their two computers, along with monitors, hard drives, scanners, subwoofers, and printers.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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