The company started life five years digitizing the sign-in book with a simple iPad-based approach, and it has moved on to office deliveries with an automated system that simply involves scanning a barcode.
The program is controlled with a mouse, and involves scanning a scene for crucial details or making quick decisions.
The mapping technique pioneered by Dr. Denk and others involves scanning brains in impossibly thin sheets with an electron microscope.
Most of the animation is done by computer, though the technique still involves scanning hand-drawn images.
The process involves scanning the grooves of the Dictaphone belt electronically to create a digital image of the sound patterns.
The first thing I did was violate my own solving rule, which involves scanning the clue list for "gimmes" — things you definitely know — before writing any entries in.
This involves scanning them in a special micro-CT machine, of a sort developed originally to look at computer chips.
NEAR-field optics involves scanning a spot of light, of dimensions smaller than a wavelength, across the surface of a sample at a distance small enough (a few hundred ångströms) that far-field diffraction effects do not occur1,2.
The project will last another 10 years and involves scanning 40 million pages.
