Sentence examples for by a scanner from inspiring English sources

In stores, bar codes are read by a scanner, which translates the light reflected by their white spaces into electrical signals.

If the bar codes and watermarks could be scanned and stored by a wireless device instead of by a scanner or Webcam tethered to the computer, they would be more useful.

Also popular, in use by 27percentt of the country, are optical-scan systems, which work like standardized college admission tests, with the voter using a pencil to fill in a hole that is then read by a scanner.

To perform a PET scan, doctors must first inject patients with a radiotracer, a drug engineered to accumulate in the area of the body being studied and to emit low-level radiation detectable by a scanner.

He outfitted his cat Sammy, who has an eating disorder, with a device that is read by a scanner every time the cat cranes his neck over the bowl.

This is done using random compact mean sets, obtained from a cloud of 3D points given by a scanner and applying to the sample a previous definition of mean set.

The area of the urticae was determined by a scanning programme by using a scanner device (Hewlett Packard 2400c, Houston, TX, USA) and software earlier developed by Erasmus Medical Centre PAAMOSTT).

The two-dimensional images of root systems were digitized by using a scanner.

"It's all profits," Dr. Hillman said, adding that a group of doctors can make an extra $500,000 to $1 million a year simply by acquiring a scanner.

One of these scams is by placing a scanner into the receipt slot.

Band intensities were quantitated by using a scanner (Molecular Imager FX GS-710, Biorad, Hercules, CA, USA).