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The Apple Scanner was a flatbed
The Apple Scanner was a flatbed 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 a digital image. The most common type of scanner used in the home and the office is the flatbe ...
released by Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Co ...
in August 1988. It was Apple's first scanner, capable scanning A4 (8.5 in × 14.0 in) paper at a bit depth of 4 bits (16 levels of grey) at a maximum resolution of 300 dpi
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Overview
The scanner could complete a full scan in 20.4 seconds. It shipped with aSCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...
connection with an unused serial port.
To control the scanner, it came with both AppleScan and HyperScan, the latter allowed users to scan directly from within HyperCard
HyperCard is a application software, software application and software development kit, development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.
HyperCard com ...
. Later, only AppleScan was offered.
Many internal components are branded "Toshiba" and "TEC", suggesting that the OEM of the Apple Scanner was Toshiba TEC
Subsidiaries of Toshiba. Together, these companies form the Toshiba Group.
Subsidiaries
As of April 2020, Toshiba is organized into six groupings as follows:
*Electronic Devices & Storage Solutions
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The scanner was upgraded to the short-lived Apple OneScanner in 1991 with 256 levels of grey.
See also
*Drum scanner
Drum scanners are a type of image scanner that capture image information with photomultiplier, photomultiplier tubes (PMT), rather than the charge-coupled device (CCD) arrays found in flatbed scanners and inexpensive film scanners. "Reflective an ...
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