Document Management Glossary | Document Imaging Virginia

Term: SCANNING

1. Operation which precedes digitization whereby the surface of a document is analyzed for characters and graphics, and analog signals are produced corresponding to the optical density of the sampled points. See also analog, digitization, document. 2. OCR scanning is the conversion of printed or other symbolic information from paper or microform into ASCII code. See also intelligent character recognition, optical character recognition. 3. The systematic examination of data (ISO). See Image Capture. The conversion of human readable images to electronic bit maps. The process of digitizing paper and microforms.

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