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[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In 2025, a preliminary study carried out with the 7-Tesla MRI scanner at the ULiège platform allowed the team to examine the locus coeruleus in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

The National Cyber Security Centre advises people to use the QR scanner that comes with their phone - usually the camera - rather than downloading a separate app.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The game was still under way when Eric moved over to the scanner and printer and printed out something semi-official- looking.

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

"Importantly, the affected scanners rejected ballots they could not properly recognize rather than incorrectly tabulating them," it said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Participants then did an exercise designing a store of their choice using ChatGPT, while fMRI scanners recorded their brain activity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Plus, Flock moves to calm a backlash over its license-plate scanners and Instagram gets a new wordmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"The  UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

As the subjects used the video game, the researchers studied their performance with behavioral tests, and used eye scanners and captured the electrical activity in their brain with EEG.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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