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Understanding Microphones and Scanners

The document discusses different input devices including microphones that can accept voice commands and scanners that convert images and text into digital formats. Scanners work by dividing images into a grid and representing areas as binary values. Text scanned without OCR cannot be directly edited.

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Understanding Microphones and Scanners

The document discusses different input devices including microphones that can accept voice commands and scanners that convert images and text into digital formats. Scanners work by dividing images into a grid and representing areas as binary values. Text scanned without OCR cannot be directly edited.

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Microphone

Mice are used in some graphics workstations as input devices to accept voice commands. The
voice-system input can be used to initiate graphics operations or to enter data. These systems operate by
matching an input against a predefined dictionary of words and phrases.

g) Scanners
Scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and
converts it to a digital image. A scanner works by digitizing an image- dividing it into a grid of boxes and
representing each box with either a zero or a one, depending on whether the box is filled in. The resulting
matrix of bits, called a bit map, can then be stored in a file, displayed on a screen, and manipulated by
programs.
Optical scanners do not distinguish text from illustrations; they represent all images as bit maps.
Therefore, you cannot directly edit text that has been scanned. To edit text read by an optical scanner, you
need an optical character recognition (OCR ) system to translate the image into ASCII characters.
Larger scanners include machines into which you can feed sheets of paper. These are called
sheet-fed scanners. A second type of scanner, called a flatbed scanner, is like a photocopy machine. It
consists of a board on which you lay books, magazines, and other documents that you want to scan.
Overhead scanners also called copyboard scanners look like overhead projectors. You place
documents face-up on a scanning bed, and a small overhead tower moves across the page.

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