digital scan

Computerized document copy

A digital scan is an electronic image created by converting physical material—documents, photographs, body parts—into digital data.

Medical imaging produces digital scans of internal structures: The CT scan revealed no abnormalities.

In everyday use, scanning a document means creating a digital copy: I'll scan the contract and email it to you.

Related
  • imageVisual or mental likeness
  • documentWritten or electronic file
  • MRIMagnetic body imaging
  • CTTomographic imaging method
  • barcodeEncoded product stripes

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reproduction method

digital scanphotocopy

Machine-made paper duplicate

xerox · carbon copy · mimeograph · fax · microfilm

document format

digital scanhard copy

Printed physical document

printed page · physical document

authenticity/origin

digital scansource material

Original work adapted from

master copy · primary source

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G