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85-447: Adobe Bridge is often used to organize files by renaming a group of them at once, assigning colored labels or star ratings assigned to files from the respective Adobe software suite, edit embedded or associated XMP and IPTC Information Interchange Model metadata , or sort or categorize them based on their metadata. It can use these options through different versions of a file that is part of an Adobe Version Cue project. However, it lacks

170-488: A computer which controls the scanner and stores scans. Small portable scanners, either sheetfed or handheld and operated by batteries and with storage capability, are available for use away from a computer; stored scans can be transferred later. Many can scan both small documents such as business cards and till receipts , as well as letter-sized documents. The higher-resolution cameras fitted to some smartphones can produce reasonable quality document scans by taking

255-445: A copper plate with a raised image. When the stylus makes contact with a raised part of the plate, it sends a pulse across a pair of wires to a receiver containing an electrode linked to another pendulum. A piece of paper impregnated with an electrochemically sensitive solution resides underneath the electrode and changes color whenever a pulse reaches the electrode. A gear advances the copper plate and paper in tandem with each swing of

340-489: A digital image . The most common type of scanner used in offices and in the home is the flatbed scanner , where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning. A sheetfed scanner , which moves the page across an image sensor using a series of rollers, may be used to scan one document at a time or multiple, as in an automatic document feeder . A handheld scanner is a portable version of an image scanner that can be used on any flat surface. Scans are usually downloaded to

425-442: A laser beam to scan pages up to 11 by 14 inches at a maximum resolution of 1000 lines per inch. Although it was only capable of scanning in 1-bit monochrome, the on-board processor was capable of halftoning, unsharp masking , contrast adjustment, and anamorphic distortions , among other features. The Autokon 8400 could either be connected to a film recorder to create a negative for producing plates or connected to

510-429: A Dmax close to 4.0d with proper exposure, and so can black-and-white negative film. Consumer-level flatbed photo scanners have a dynamic range in the 2.0–3.0 range, which can be inadequate for scanning all types of photographic film , as Dmax can be and often is between 3.0d and 4.0d with traditional black-and-white film. Color film compresses its 12 stops of a possible 16 stops (film latitude) into just 2.0d of space via

595-587: A PDF. The next version of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS2) included these custom panels as part of its default set. The Windows Photo Gallery , released with Windows Vista , offers support for the XMP standard, the first time Microsoft has released metadata compatibility beyond Exif . Image scanner An image scanner (often abbreviated to just scanner ) is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting , or an object and converts it to

680-444: A color negative. In this system, three color-separated plates (of CMY values) are prepared from a color negative via dot etching and placed in the scanner bed. Above each plate are rigidly fixed, equidistant light beam projectors that focus a beam of light onto one corner of the plate. The entire bed with all three plates moves horizontally, back and forth, to reach the opposite corners of the plate; with each horiztonal oscillation of

765-400: A document as a whole (the "main" metadata), but can also describe parts of a document, such as pages or included images. This architecture makes it possible to retain authorship and rights information about, for example, images included in a published document. Similarly, it permits documents created from several smaller documents to retain the original metadata associated with the parts. This

850-419: A document in order to judge what area of the document should be scanned (if not the entirety of it), before scanning it at a higher resolution. Some flatbed scanners incorporate sheet-feeding mechanisms called automatic document feeders (ADFs) that use the same scanning element as the flatbed portion. This type of scanner is sometimes called a reflective scanner , because it works by shining white light onto

935-492: A group of images. A plugin for Photoshop called Mini Bridge adds a small file browser to Photoshop, although Mini Bridge can be used only if Adobe Bridge is running in the background. Adobe Bridge is customizable using JavaScript . The Bridge scripting guide is available online as well as in paperback format. Adobe Bridge initially allowed for access to Adobe Stock Photos , an online collection of stock photography images drawn from well-known stock photo houses. The service

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1020-669: A laser onto the page for calibration and software skew correction. A film scanner , also known as a slide scanner or a transparency scanner, is a type of specialized flatbed scanner specifically for scanning film negatives and slides . A typical film scanner works by passing a narrowly focused beam of light through the film and reading the intensity and color of the light that emerges. The lowest-cost dedicated film scanners can be had for less than $ 50, and they might be sufficient for modest needs. From there they inch up in staggered levels of quality and advanced features upward of five figures. Image scanners are usually used in conjunction with

1105-506: A light projector hovering over a fourth, unexposed lithographic plate. This plate receives a color-corrected, continuous-tone dot-etch of either the cyan, magenta, or yellow values. The fourth plate is replaced with another unexposed plate, and the process repeats until three color-corrected plates, of cyan, magenta and yellow, are produced. In the 1950s, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) took Hardy and Wurzburg's patent and replaced

1190-411: A long, motor-driven rotating cylinder, with five equidistant contacts scanning over each plate at the same starting position. The Bartlane system was initially used exclusively by telegraph, with the five-bit Baudot code used to transmit the grayscale digital image. In 1921, the system was modified for offline use, with a five-bit paper tape punch punching holes depending on whether its connections to

1275-732: A mainframe or minicomputer for further image processing and digital storage. The Autokon 8400 enjoyed widespread use in newspapers—ECRM shipped 1,000 units to newspaper publishers by 1985 —but its limited resolution and maximum scan size made it unsuitable for commercial printing. In 1982, ECRM introduced the Autokon 8500, capable of scanning up to 1200 lines per inch. Four of ECRM's competitors introduced commercial flatbed scanners that year, including Scitex , Agfa-Gevaert , and Linotype-Hell , all of which were capable of scanning larger prints at higher resolutions. In 1977, Raymond Kurzweil , of his start-up company Kurzweil Computer Products, released

1360-423: A mainstream commodity". A flatbed scanner is a type of scanner that provides a glass bed ( platen ) on which the object to be scanned lies motionless. The scanning element moves vertically from under the glass, scanning either the entirety of the platen or a predetermined portion. The driver software for most flatbed scanners allows users to prescan their documents—in essence, to take a quick, low-resolution pass at

1445-483: A namespace for the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set). Custom namespaces can be used to extend the data model. An instance of the XMP data model is called an XMP packet. Adding properties to a packet does not affect existing properties. Software to add or modify properties in an XMP packet should leave properties that are unknown to it untouched. For example, it is useful for recording the history of

1530-405: A normal letter and much longer, remain available as of 2024 . Some computer mice can also scan documents. A drum scanner is a type of scanner that uses a clear, motor-driven rotating cylinder (drum) onto which a print, a film negative, a transparency, or any other flat object is taped or otherwise secured. A beam of light either projects past, or reflects off, the material to be scanned onto

1615-412: A photograph with the phone's camera and post-processing it with a scanning app, a range of which are available for most phone operating systems , to whiten the background of a page, correct perspective distortion so that the shape of a rectangular document is corrected, convert to black-and-white, etc. Many such apps can scan multiple-page documents with successive camera exposures and output them either as

1700-605: A public patent license for the XMP. As of November 2016, Adobe continues to distribute these documents under the XMP Specification Public Patent License . XMP was first introduced by Adobe in April 2001 as part of the Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software product. Before that, it was called XAP (Extensible Authoring and Publishing) as internal code name. On June 21, 2004, Adobe announced its collaboration with

1785-475: A resource as it passes through multiple processing steps, from being photographed, scanned , or authored as text, through photo editing steps (such as cropping or color adjustment), to assemble into a final document. XMP allows each software program or device along the workflow to add its own information to a digital resource, which carries its metadata along. The prerequisite is that all involved editors either actively support XMP, or at least do not delete it from

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1870-502: A scan of a letter-sized print at 200-dpi; its grayscale counterpart, the DS-200, took only 30 seconds to make a scan at the same size and resolution. The first relatively affordable flatbed scanner for personal computers appeared in February 1987 with Hewlett-Packard 's ScanJet , which was capable of scanning 4-bit (64-shade) grayscale images at a maximum resolution of 300 dpi. By

1955-513: A scanner is its resolution , measured in pixels per inch (ppi), sometimes more accurately referred to as samples per inch (spi). Instead of using the scanner's true optical resolution, the only meaningful parameter, manufacturers like to refer to the interpolated resolution, which is much higher thanks to software interpolation . As of 2009 , a high-end flatbed scanner can scan up to 5400 ppi and drum scanners have an optical resolution of between 3000 and 24000 ppi. Effective resolution refers to

2040-403: A scanner with at least a 3.6d dynamic range, but also a Dmax between 4.0d to 5.0d. High-end (photo lab) flatbed scanners can reach a dynamic range of 3.7, and Dmax around 4.0d. Dedicated film scanners have a dynamic range between 3.0d–4.0d. Office document scanners can have a dynamic range of less than 2.0d. Drum scanners have a dynamic range of 3.6–4.5. For scanning film, infrared cleaning

2125-418: A series of mirrors, which focus the beam onto the drum scanner's photomultiplier tube (PMT). After one revolution, the beam of light moves down a single step. When scanning transparent media, such as negatives, a light beam is directed from within the cylinder onto the media; when scanning opaque items, a light beam from above is reflected off the surface of the media. When only one PMT is present, three passes of

2210-612: A single apparatus that can be made available to all members of a workgroup. Battery-powered portable scanners store scans on internal memory; they can later be transferred to a computer either by direct connection, typically USB, or in some cases a memory card may be removed from the scanner and plugged into the computer. A raster image editor must be able to communicate with a scanner. There are many different scanners, and many of those scanners use different protocols. In order to simplify applications programming, some application programming interfaces (APIs) were developed. The API presents

2295-444: A single file or multiple-page files. Some smartphone scanning apps can save documents directly to online storage locations, such as Dropbox and Evernote , send via email, or fax documents via email-to-fax gateways. Smartphone scanner apps can be broadly divided into three categories: Scanners equipped with charge-coupled device (CCD) scanning elements require a sophisticated series of mirrors and lenses to reproduce an image, but

2380-449: A single frame of the output as an image file. Document cameras may even use the same APIs as scanners when connected to computers. A planetary scanner is a type of very-high-resolution document camera used for capturing certain fragile documents. A book scanner is another kind of document camera, pairing a digital camera with a scanning area defined by a mat to assist in scanning books. Some more advanced models of book scanners project

2465-567: A team led by Russell A. Kirsch . It used a photomultiplier tube to detect light at a given point and produced an amplified signal that a computer could read and store into memory. The computer of choice at the time was the SEAC mainframe ; the maximum horizontal resolution that the SEAC was capable of processing was 176 pixels. The first image ever scanned on this machine was a photograph of Kirsch's three-month-old son, Walden. In 1969, Dacom introduced

2550-470: A time past a stationary scanning element (two scanning elements, in the case of scanners with duplex functionality). Unlike flatbed scanners, sheetfed scanners are not equipped to scan bound material such as books or magazines, nor are they suitable for any material thicker than plain printer paper. Some sheetfed scanners, called automatic document feeders (ADFs), are capable of scanning several sheets in one session, although others only accept one page at

2635-451: A time. Some sheetfed scanners are portable , powered by batteries, and have their own storage, eventually transferring stored scans to a computer. A handheld scanner is a type of scanner that must be manually dragged or gilded by hand across the surface of the object to be scanned. Scanning documents in this manner requires a steady hand, as an uneven scanning rate produces distorted images. Some handheld scanners have an indicator light on

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2720-769: A typical edited JPEG file, XMP information is typically included alongside Exif and IPTC Information Interchange Model data. For more details, the XMP Specification, Part 3 Storage in Files listed below has details on embedding in specific file formats. The XMP Toolkit implements metadata handling in two libraries: Adobe provides the XMP Toolkit free of charge under a BSD license . The Toolkit includes specification and usage documents (PDFs), API documentation ( doxygen / javadoc ), C++ source code (XMPCore and XMPFiles) and Java source code (currently only XMPCore). XMPFiles

2805-412: Is a technique used to remove the effects of dust and scratches on images scanned from film; many modern scanners incorporate this feature. It works by scanning the film with infrared light; the dyes in typical color film emulsions are transparent to infrared light, but dust and scratches are not, and block infrared; scanner software can use the visible and infrared information to detect scratches and process

2890-545: Is a type of scanner that places the scanning element in a housing on top of a vertical post, hovering above the document or object to be scanned, which lies stationary on an open-air bed. Chinon Industries patented a specific type of overhead scanner, which uses a rotating mirror to reflect the contents of the bed onto a linear CCD, in 1987. Although very flexible—allowing users to scan not only two-dimensional prints and documents but any 3D object, of any size—the Chinon design required

2975-769: Is an example XML document for serialized XMP metadata in a JPEG photo: This metadata describes various properties of the image like the creator tool, image dimension or a face region within the image. Embedding metadata in files allows easy sharing and transfer of files across products, vendors, platforms, without metadata getting lost. Embedding avoids a multitude of problems coming from proprietary vendor-specific metadata databases. XMP can be used in several file formats such as PDF , JPEG , JPEG 2000 , JPEG XR , JPEG XL , GIF , PNG , WebP , HTML , TIFF , Adobe Illustrator , PSD , MP3 , MP4 , Audio Video Interleave , WAV , RF64 , Audio Interchange File Format , PostScript , Encapsulated PostScript , and proposed for DjVu . In

3060-509: Is currently available as a C++/Java implementation in Windows, Mac OS, Unix / Linux . The mainstream IPTC Information Interchange Model editing tools also support editing of XMP data. XMP is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The XMP specification became an ISO standard and is not proprietary anymore. Initially, Adobe released source code for the XMP SDK under a license called

3145-537: Is stored separately. The XMP data model, serialization format and core properties is published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 16684-1:2012 standard. The defined XMP data model can be used to store any set of metadata properties. These can be simple name/value pairs, structured values or lists of values. The data can be nested as well. The XMP standard also defines particular namespaces for defined sets of core properties (e.g.

3230-488: Is the space taken up in the 0 to 5 scale, and Dmin and Dmax denote where the least dense and most dense measurements on a negative or positive film. The density range of negative film is up to 3.6d, while slide film dynamic range is 2.4d. Color negative density range after processing is 2.0d thanks to the compression of the 12 stops into a small density range. Dmax will be the densest on slide film for shadows, and densest on negative film for highlights. Some slide films can have

3315-699: The ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED ;— OPEN SOURCE LICENSE . The compatibility of this license with the GNU General Public License has been questioned. The license is not listed on the list maintained by the Open Source Initiative and is different from the licenses for most of their open source software. On May 14, 2007, Adobe released the XMP Toolkit SDK under a standard BSD license. On August 28, 2008, Adobe posted

3400-537: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative , which include things like title, description, creator, and so on. The standard is designed to be extensible, allowing users to add their own custom types of metadata into the XMP data. XMP generally does not allow binary data types to be embedded. This means that any binary data one wants to carry in XMP, such as thumbnail images, must be encoded in some XML-friendly format, such as Base64 . XMP metadata can describe

3485-501: The International Press Telecommunications Council . In July 2004, a working group led by Adobe Systems ' Gunar Penikis and IPTC's Michael Steidl was set up, and volunteers were recruited from AFP (Agence France-Presse) , Associated Press , ControlledVocabulary.com, IDEAlliance, Mainichi Shimbun , Reuters , and others, to develop the new schema. The "IPTC Core Schema for XMP" version 1.0 specification

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3570-419: The computer that the scanner is connected to, although some scanners are able to store scans on standalone flash media (e.g., memory cards and USB drives ). Modern scanners typically use a charge-coupled device (CCD) or a contact image sensor (CIS) as the image sensor, whereas drum scanners , developed earlier and still used for the highest possible image quality, use a photomultiplier tube (PMT) as

3655-434: The 111 fax machine, which was the first digital fax machine to employ data compression using an on-board computer. It employed a flatbed design with a continuous feed capable of scanning up to letter paper in 1-bit monochrome (black and white). The first flatbed scanner used for digital image processing was the Autokon 8400, introduced by ECRM Inc., a subsidiary of AM International , in 1975. The Autokon 8400 used

3740-492: The German engineer Arthur Korn introduced the phototelautograph, a fax machine that used a light-sensitive selenium cell to scan a paper to be copied, instead of relying on a metallic drum and stylus. It was even more commercially successful than Gray's machine and became the basis for telephotography machines used by newspapers around the world from the early 1900s onward. Alexander Murray and Richard Morse invented and patented

3825-621: The IS-22, a cartridge that fit into their inkjet printers to convert them into sheetfed scanners. In early 1985, the first flatbed scanner for the IBM PC , the Datacopy Model 700, was released. Based on a CCD imaging element, the Model 700 was capable of scanning letter-sized documents at a maximum resolution of 200 dpi at 1-bit monochrome. The Model 700 came with a special interface card for connecting to

3910-553: The Kurzweil Reading Machine, which was the first flatbed scanner with a charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging element. The Kurzweil Reading Machine was invented to assist blind people in reading books that had not been translated to braille . It comprised the image scanner and a Data General Nova minicomputer —the latter performing the image processing, optical character recognition (OCR), and speech synthesis . The first scanners for personal computers appeared in

3995-550: The Macintosh simultaneously. The ImageWriter's carriage, controlled by the ThunderScan, moves left-to-right to scan one 200- dpi (dots per inch) line at a time, with the carriage return serving to advance the scanner down the print to be scanned. The ThunderScan was the Macintosh's first scanner and sold well but operated very slowly and was only capable of scanning prints at 1-bit monochrome. In 1999, Canon iterated on this idea with

4080-668: The PC, and an optional, aftermarket OCR software card and software package were sold for the Model 700. In April 1985, LaserFAX Inc. introduced the first CCD-based color flatbed scanner, the SpectraSCAN 200, for the IBM PC. The SpectraSCAN 200 worked by placing color filters over the CCD and taking four passes (three for each primary color and one for black) per scan to build up a color reproduction. The SpectraSCAN 200 took between two and three minutes to produce

4165-629: The RGB signals into color-corrected cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) values. The processed signals are then sent to four lathes that etch CMYK halftone dots onto the offset cylinders. In 1948, Arthur Hardy of the Interchemical Corporation and F. L. Wurzburg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the first analog, color flatbed image scanner, intended for producing color-corrected lithographic plates from

4250-468: The array. This data is then processed with some proprietary algorithm to correct for different exposure conditions, and sent to the computer via the device's input/output interface (usually USB, previous to which was SCSI or bidirectional parallel port in older units). Color depth varies depending on the scanning array characteristics, but is usually at least 24 bits. High-quality models have 36-48 bits of color depth. Another qualifying parameter for

4335-407: The bed, the bed moves down one step to cover the entire vertical area of the plate. While this is happening, the beam of light focused on a given spot on the plate gets reflected and bounced off to a photocell adjacent to the projector. Each photocell connects to an analog image processor , which evaluates the reflectance of the combined CMY values using Neugebauer equations and outputs a signal to

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4420-564: The beginning of 1988, the ScanJet had accounted for 27 percent of all scanner sales in terms of dollar volume, per Gartner Dataquest . In February 1989, the company introduced the ScanJet Plus, which increased the bit depth to 8 bits (256 shades) while costing only US$ 200 more than the original ScanJet's $ 1990 (equivalent to $ 4,891 in 2023). This led to a massive price drop in grayscale scanners with equivalent or lesser features in

4505-523: The best possible quality is required lossless compression should be used; reduced-quality files of smaller size can be produced from such an image when required (e.g., image designed to be printed on a full page, and a much smaller file to be displayed as part of a fast-loading web page). Purity can be diminished by scanner noise, optical flare, poor analog to digital conversion, scratches, dust, Newton's rings , out-of-focus sensors, improper scanner operation, and poor software. Drum scanners are said to produce

4590-533: The complex optics of CCDs scanners. However, their depth of field is much worse, resulting in blurry scans if the scanned document is not perfectly flush against the platten. Because the sensors require far less power than CCD scanners, CIS scanners are able to be manufactured down to a low cost and are typically much lighter in weight and depth than CCD scanners. Scanners equipped with photomultiplier tubes (PMT) are nearly exclusively drum scanners . Color scanners typically read RGB (red-green-blue) color data from

4675-460: The contacts are bridged or not. The result was a stored digital image with five gray levels. Reproduction of the image was achieved with a lamp passing over the punched holes, exposing five different intensities of light onto a film negative. The first scanner to store its images digitally onto a computer was a drum scanner built in 1957 at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, later NIST) by

4760-472: The definition and processing of extensible metadata. It also provides guidelines for embedding XMP information into popular image, video and document file formats, such as JPEG and PDF , without breaking their readability by applications that do not support XMP. Therefore, the non-XMP metadata have to be reconciled with the XMP properties. Although metadata can alternatively be stored in a sidecar file , embedding metadata avoids problems that occur when metadata

4845-426: The drum was connected to three lathes that etched cyan, magenta, and yellow (CMY) halftone dots onto three offset cylinders directly. The rights to the patent were sold to Printing Developments Incorporated (P.D.I.) in 1946, who improved on the design by using a photomultiplier tube to image the points on the negative, which produced an amplified signal that was then fed to a single-purpose computer that processed

4930-440: The early 1990s professional flatbed scanners were available over a local computer network . This proved useful to publishers, print shops, etc. This functionality largely fell out of use as the cost of flatbed scanners reduced enough to make sharing unnecessary. From 2000 all-in-one multi-purpose devices became available which were suitable for both small offices and consumers, with printing, scanning, copying, and fax capability in

5015-455: The first analog color scanner at Eastman Kodak in 1937. Intended for color separation at printing presses , their machine was an analog drum scanner that imaged a color transparency mounted in the drum, with a light source placed underneath the film, and three photocells with red, green, and blue color filters reading each spot on the transparency to translate the image into three electronic signals. In Murray and Morse's initial design,

5100-447: The foil and a stylus that scans across the drum and sends a pulse down a pair of wires when it contacts a conductive point on the foil. The receiver contains an electrode that touches a sheet of chemically treated paper, which changes color when the electrode receives a pulse; the result is a reverse contrast (white-on-blue) reproduction of the original image. Bakewell's fax machine was marginally more successful than Bain's but suffered from

5185-672: The image are required for a full-color RGB scan. When three PMTs are present, only a single pass is required. The photomultiplier tubes of drum scanners offer superior dynamic range to that of CCD sensors. For this reason, drum scanners can extract more detail from very dark shadow areas of a transparency than flatbed scanners using CCD sensors. The smaller dynamic range of the CCD sensors (versus photomultiplier tubes) can lead to loss of shadow detail, especially when scanning very dense transparency film. Drum scanners are also able to resolve true detail in excess of 10000 dpi, producing higher-resolution scans than any CCD scanner. An overhead scanner

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5270-468: The image sensor. Document cameras , which use commodity or specialized high-resolution cameras, photograph documents all at once. Image scanners are considered the successors of early facsimile (fax) machines. The earliest attempt at a fax machine was patented in 1843 by the Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain but never put into production. In his design, a metal stylus linked to a pendulum scans across

5355-781: The image to greatly reduce their visibility, considering their position, size, shape, and surroundings. Scanner manufacturers usually have their own names attached to this technique. For example, Epson , Minolta , Nikon , Konica Minolta , Microtek , and others use Digital ICE , while Canon uses its own system, FARE (Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement). Plustek uses LaserSoft Imaging iSRD . Some independent software developers design infrared cleaning tools. By combining full-color imagery with 3D models, modern hand-held scanners are able to completely reproduce objects electronically. The addition of 3D color printers enables accurate miniaturization of these objects, with applications across many industries and professions. For scanner apps,

5440-505: The image; later ones scan in monochrome or color, as desired. A hand scanner may also have a small window through which the document being scanned could be viewed. As hand scanners are much narrower than most normal document or book sizes, software (or the end user) needed to combine several narrow "strips" of scanned documents to produce the finished article. Inexpensive, portable , battery-powered or USB-powered wand scanners and pen scanners, typically capable of scanning an area as wide as

5525-442: The level of captured detail. The size of the file created increases with the square of the resolution; doubling the resolution quadruples the file size . A resolution must be chosen that is within the capabilities of the equipment, preserves sufficient detail, and does not produce a file of excessive size. The file size can be reduced for a given resolution by using "lossy" compression methods such as JPEG, at some cost in quality. If

5610-401: The market. The number of third-party developers producing software and hardware supporting these scanners jumped dramatically in turn, effectively popularizing the scanner for the personal computer user. By 1999, the cost of the average color-capable scanner had dropped to $ 300 (equivalent to $ 549 in 2023). That year, Computer Shopper declared 1999 "the year that scanners finally became

5695-521: The maxima and minima of each oscillation. In 1893, the American engineer Elisha Gray introduced the telautograph , the first widely commercially successful fax machine that used linkage bars translating x - and y -axis motion at the receiver to scan a pen across the paper and strike it only when actuated by the stylus moving across the transceiver drum. Because it could use commodity stationery paper, it became popular in business and hospitals. In 1902,

5780-561: The mid-1980s, starting with ThunderScan for the Macintosh in December 1984. Designed by Andy Hertzfeld and released by Thunderware Inc., the ThunderScan contains a specialized image sensor built into a plastic housing the same shape as the ink ribbon cartridge of Apple 's ImageWriter printer. The ThunderScan slots into the ImageWriter's ribbon carrier and connects to both the ImageWriter and

5865-474: The object to be scanned and reading the intensity and color of light that is reflected from it, usually a line at a time. They are designed for scanning prints or other flat, opaque materials, but some have available transparency adapters, which—for a number of reasons—in most cases, are not very well suited to scanning film. A sheetfed scanner, also known as a document feeder, is a type of scanner that uses motor-driven rollers to move one single sheet of paper at

5950-503: The pendulum; over time, the result is a perfect reproduction of the copper plate. In Bain's system, it is critical that the pendulums of the transceiver and receiver are in perfect step, or else the reproduced image will be distorted. In 1847, the English physicist Frederick Bakewell developed the first working fax machine. Bakewell's machine was similar to Bain's but used a revolving drum coated in tinfoil, with non-conductive ink painted on

6035-692: The photo editing functions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom , which are carried out by the Camera Raw plugin, coming with Adobe Photoshop. Image files can be shown in different sized thumbnails, slide shows or lists. Each folder, which can be bookmarked, has a cache file for speeding up rendering time of images when viewing a thumbnail. The cache can be in one central location or in individual folders. Adobe Bridge can be invoked from within all components of Creative Suite except Adobe Acrobat . Coupled with Adobe Photoshop, Bridge can execute Photoshop's compatible automation plug-ins, scripts and Adobe Camera Raw filters on

6120-422: The process of dye coupling and removal of all silver from the emulsion. Kodak Vision 3 has 18 stops. So, color-negative film scans the easiest of all film types on the widest range of scanners. Because traditional black-and-white film retains the image creating silver after processing, density range can be almost twice that of color film. This makes scanning traditional black-and-white film more difficult and requires

6205-562: The projector-and-photocell arrangement with a video camera tube focusing on one spot of the plate. The first digital imaging system was the Bartlane system in 1920. Named after the pair who invented it, Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, the Bartlane system used zinc plates etched with an image from a film negative projected at five different exposure levels to correspond to five quantization levels. All five plates are affixed to

6290-469: The purest digital representations of the film, followed by high-end film scanners that use the larger Kodak Tri-Linear sensors. The third important parameter for a scanner is its dynamic range (also known as density range). A high-density range means that the scanner is able to record shadow details and brightness details in one scan. Density of film is measured on a base 10 log scale and varies between 0.0 (transparent) and 5.0, about 16 stops. Density range

6375-576: The resource. The abstract XMP data model needs a concrete representation when it is stored or embedded into a file. As serialization format, a subset of the W3C RDF/XML syntax is most commonly used. It is a syntax to express a Resource Description Framework graph in XML. There are various equivalent ways to serialize the same XMP packet in RDF/XML. The most common metadata tags recorded in XMP data are those from

6460-423: The result of this complexity is a much higher-quality scan. Because CCDs have a much greater depth of field, they are more forgiving when it comes to scanning documents that are difficult to get perfectly flat against the platen (such as bound books). Scanners equipped with contact image sensor (CIS) scanning elements are designed to be in near-direct contact with the document to be scanned and thus do not require

6545-415: The same synchronization issues. In 1862, Giovanni Caselli solved this with the pantelegraph , the first fax machine put into regular service. Largely based on Bain's design, it ensured complete synchronization by flanking the pendulums of both the transceiver and receiver between two magnetic regulators, which become magnetized with each swing of the pendulum and become demagnetized when the pendulum reaches

6630-410: The scan quality is highly dependent on the quality of the phone camera and on the framing chosen by the user of the app. Scans must virtually always be transferred from the scanner to a computer or information storage system for further processing or storage. There are two basic issues: (1) how the scanner is physically connected to the computer and (2) how the application retrieves the information from

6715-482: The scanner for this purpose, actuating if the user is moving the scanner too fast. They typically have at least one button that starts the scan when pressed; it is held by the user for the duration of the scan. Some other handheld scanners have switches to set the optical resolution , as well as a roller, which generates a clock pulse for synchronization with the computer. Older hand scanners were monochrome , and produced light from an array of green LEDs to illuminate

6800-459: The scanner. The file size of a scan can go up to about 100 MB for a 600 dpi, 23 × 28 cm (slightly larger than A4 paper ) uncompressed 24-bit image. Scanned files must be transferred and stored. Scanners can generate this volume of data in a matter of seconds, making a fast connection desirable. Scanners communicate to their host computer using one of the following physical interfaces, listing roughly from slow to fast: During

6885-480: The supported file formats that can be opened or accessed in Adobe Bridge . Extensible Metadata Platform The Extensible Metadata Platform ( XMP ) is an ISO standard , originally created by Adobe Systems Inc. , for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets. XMP standardizes a data model, a serialization format and core properties for

6970-440: The true resolution of a scanner, and is determined by using a resolution test chart. The effective resolution of most all consumer flatbed scanners is considerably lower than the manufactures' given optical resolution. Manufacturers often claim interpolated resolutions as high as 19200 ppi; but such numbers carry little meaningful value because the number of possible interpolated pixels is unlimited, and doing so does not increase

7055-466: The user to provide uniform illumination of the object to be scanned and was more cumbersome to set up. A more modern type of overhead scanner is a document camera (also known as a video scanner), which uses a digital camera to capture a document all at once. Most document cameras output live video of the document and are usually reserved for displaying documents to a live audience, but they may also be used as replacements for image scanners, capturing

7140-659: Was discontinued on April 1, 2008 and reactivated in 2015 by the Fotolia microstock -site acquisition. Currently, the minimum system requirements are Windows 10 (version 22H2) or MacOS 12 Monterey. and Creative Suite Production Studio. and more. - Added support for CEP Extensions - Added Output workspace - Replaced OpenGL APIs with Metal APIs for macOS - Asset conversion using the Export panel -Multi Window -Compress/Extract files for Various asset types -Place Asset Files from Bridge to Adobe Substance 3D Stager The table below contains

7225-505: Was released publicly on March 21, 2005. A set of custom panels for Adobe Photoshop CS can be downloaded from the IPTC. The package includes a User's Guide, example photos with embedded XMP information, the specification document, and an implementation guide for developers. The "User's Guide to the IPTC Core" goes into detail about how each of the fields should be used and is also available directly as

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