optical scanner

Duke pulled cover from the optical scanner and clicked on the power.

Optical scanners read marks made by hand, like X's, on paper ballots.

That ideal will probably never come to pass because the optical scanners cannot read most handwriting.

He then used an optical scanner to electronically transfer these and other photos to the Web site.

Normally banks process checks by putting them through an optical scanner, which reads the account number.

Counties need only one optical scanner for each precinct, compared with several computerized systems.

The paper will be fed into an optical scanner that can read and tabulate the votes.

She pulled on her surveillance helmet with its portable bridge of optical scanners.

Per unit, the cost of optical scanners is about $1,000 more than a typical touch-screen machine.

The optical scanners provide a fast count and use paper ballots, essential in case of a recount.

Under the bench he found an optical scanner.

It had reached the point where the memories came whenever he reached for the optical scanner.

It had been his idea to take the optical scanner apart and use it as a weapon.

Optical scanners now make digital copies of paper documents.

Election officials can then use the slip to tally votes with an optical scanner made by a different manufacturer.

Under state law, voters will use optical scanners starting in the federal elections in November 2008.

The answers - read from microfilm by an optical scanner - can now be processed in district offices.

For static recognition (e.g. using an optical scanner) the process is slightly different.

It should be testing optical scanners, which are more transparent and secure and cost much less.

The first suggestion to use mark sense technology to count ballots came in 1953, but practical optical scanners did not emerge until the 1960s.

At the bottom of a data page is the machine-readable zone, which can be read both visually and by an optical scanner.

A barcode is a series of alternating dark and light stripes that are read by an optical scanner.

Let's use optical scanners or similar electronic machines only for tabulation of actual paper ballots.

The data include digital images of almost every hand-addressed envelope, which optical scanners cannot easily read, postal officials said.

He used an optical scanner to transcribe the text into a personal computer and punched up the decryption program.