If you wondered if it is possible to have a copy of mementos and important documents in case the original was lost or destroyed.
It is possible if you have a scanner if you ask yourself what I can do with a scanner.
You can use a scanner to turn artwork, important documents, photos and other items into digital files.
You will be about to store files safely on your hard drive, disk.
Scanners now are popular and very affordable for every user to import or load images into their PC.
The power and the easy run software you can run complex image and edited it yourself.
You can show off your kids drawing by using a scanner.
Scan the image and put it on the Internet.
Instead of putting photos in box.
Show your photo in an electronic greeting card, handmade calendar.
Use your scanner to scan your birth certificate, mortgage paper, insurance paper.
Then when you need them you can search for the documents and the image on your computer.
When buying a scanner it won't put a crimp in your budget.
Flatbed scanners are available for under 100.
00.
You can find a good color flatbed scanner for less than a typical laser printer.
The scanner is the next must to have with your computer.
There are several types and styles of scanner that are available from which you can select from.
Some scanner have specialized function.
These are slide scanner and drum scanner.
Slide scanner are use to scan 35mm slides.
Drum scanner are used for very high resolution.
The Drum scanner types are very expensive and large not very good for home.
The Types of scanner that are good for home are flatbed scanner and film scanners.
Flatbed scanners are the most popular desktop scanner.
The flatbed scanner has a flat glass surface that is called the bed or the platen this is where you put your object you what to scan the bed is also the scanning area.
This scanner is like the photocopier they operate in the same way.
You place the object you won't to scan on the bed and close the cover.
The light bar mover below the object and scan it.
Flatbed scanner is more versatile then the sheet fed scanner.
They can scan wider range of objects.
The scanner can scan flat originals papers of different sizes, like photo and other item.
The flatbed is also perfect for scanning pages from books without removing or damaging the pages.
You can scan anything from paper to full color artwork to 3D objects.
There is software and image edited that come with the scanner.
Most flatbed scanner can use a transparency adapter so you can scan slides, x-rays and other transparent.
These are special add on and cost about as much as the scanner.
Film scanner use a film strip holder and scan one frame at a time of a strip.
The strips can be up to six frames long.
The best way to get high quality images into the computer is to shoot 35mm film and then scan it.
One advantage of film scanner is that your one generation closer to using the original image.
Film has a much wider range then a print, your computer has more to work with once the image is scanned.
The highest quality scans are from slides or negatives.
They have a much higher dynamic rang.
Film scanner must enlarge the slide and negatives quite a bit.
They must have very high resolution to be really useful.