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[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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The researchers also found that a relatively inexpensive handheld X-ray fluorescence scanner could readily detect lead based ink in a burned scroll.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

He uses a 3D scanner to assess his patients' teeth, and can see the wear over time.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In 2025, a preliminary study carried out with the 7-Tesla MRI scanner at the ULiège platform allowed the team to examine the locus coeruleus in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

While Hitchcock required use of a fake-ID scanner, he said that he couldn’t control all of his employees and that the bouncer who let in patrons with fake IDs was fired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

I force my feet to move into the scanner, and stand in the middle, where all the others stood.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

"Importantly, the affected scanners rejected ballots they could not properly recognize rather than incorrectly tabulating them," it said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Participants then did an exercise designing a store of their choice using ChatGPT, while fMRI scanners recorded their brain activity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Chaves maintained close ties to the U.S., successfully lobbying the Biden administration for high-tech antidrug scanners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"The  UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

At the time he had a French colleague who managed GE’s power generator business for the scanners out of France.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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