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
