digital scans
Computerized document images
Digital scans are electronic images created by converting physical documents, photographs, or objects into digital format using a scanner or camera.
The term covers everything from office document scanning to medical imaging like CT scans and MRIs.
In medical contexts, the phrase often refers specifically to diagnostic images: The doctor ordered digital scans of her knee.
Digital scans can be stored, shared, and manipulated in ways physical originals cannot.
- imagingProducing visual representations
- medical imagingCreating pictures inside bodies
- documentsFormal written records
- document managementControlling files and paperwork
- copiesMakes identical versions
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- digital contentfiles, blog posts, data, videos, video essays
- news archivesnewspaper archives, news archives, press clippings, newspaper clippings, back issues
digital scanshard copies
Physical printed documents
printed materials · microfilm · microfiche · photographic prints
digital scanssource materials
Original informational inputs
master copies · original manuscripts · primary documents · primary sources · originals
digital scansphotocopies
Machine-made document duplicates
carbon copies · tracings · photographic prints · xeroxes · mimeographs
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