Document Scanning Terminology

Achromatic Color: refers to the colors of light used by document scanners; red, blue, green and red

Automatic Document Feeder: a device allowing the scanning of multiple pages by feeding the scanner with the required pages

Bleed: image that overruns to the edge of the page

Burn: darkening a certain part of an image

Carriage: component of the scanner that captures the image

Crop: page trimming

Dropout Color: color invisible to the image scanner

Gang Scan: multiple scanning of images at the same time

Highlight: brightest sections of an image

Hue: a pure color

Interrupt:   the microprocessor is stopped by a signal and is instructed to perform a different activity

Luminance: the intensity of an image

Mask: covering a part of the image while performing other activities on the page

Monochrome: when the page has one single color

Palette: set of colors available for producing an image

Preview Scan: initial scan that allows for an accurate definition of the final scan's location

Rescale: resizing an image

Thumbnail : miniature recreation of the page that gives a preview of the final results

Vector Image:   the beginning and ending points of each line define the image

Zoom: enlarging a certain section of the image