The evolution of document scanners has been relatively long, technologically speaking.

Images captured from TV, sent back from space, or more prosaically produced by a document scanner, are likely to fall into the same category.

Kodak manufactured the first digital document scanners for high speed document imaging.

Today Kodak has a full line of document scanners providing imaging solutions for banking, finance, insurance, healthcare and other vertical industries.

It also functions as a document scanner to capture text and images that are on paper.

Hand held document scanners are manual devices that are dragged across the surface of the image to be scanned.

While documents can be scanned on general-purpose scanners, it is more efficiently performed on dedicated document scanners.

A new category of document scanner is the document camera.

And these document scanners aren't intended to scan photos, although Visioneer says that its machine handles them just fine.

He has also done a "Physical Photography" series, concentrating again on the human form, using a document scanner to create a body image in abstract form.