Scanning, OCR and imaging software is used in optical and document scanners, specialized imaging equipment, and optical character recognition (OCR) systems. Products are used to digitize, create, edit or evaluate images

Laser cutting machines, laser welding machines and laser marking systems use high-powered lasers to cut, trim, perforate, weld, or join a variety of materials in plate or sheet form.

Converting services cut large, usually roll stock materials into smaller, usable shape and sizes.

Hand held bar code scanners are used typically as inventory or point of sale (POS) devices. These scanners are passed over bar codes manually to read data. They often have a gun or wand design.

Scan and video converters transform a digital computer image to a standard video signal for use with broadcasting or video devices such as televisions, monitors, or VCRs or vice versa

Web sensing and scanning systems employ a variety of sensors that scan across a moving web to detect defects and measure parameters such as product basis weight, thickness and moisture

Electron microscopes use a focused beam of electrons instead of light to "image" the specimen and gain information as to its structure and composition.

Image scanners are devices that scan two-dimensional (2D) objects and convert them into digital images

Specialty microscopes are designed for specific applications such as metallurgy or gemology. They use specialized techniques or technologies such as acoustics to produce magnification.

Video cameras take continuous pictures and generate signals for display or recording. They capture images by breaking them down into a series of lines. This search form does not include consumer devices such as camcorders.

Fixed mount bar code scanners are designed to manually or mechanically read items passed by their scan windows. Unlike hand scanners, they are affixed to a single location

Dimensional and profile scanners gather two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) information about an object.

Safety laser scanners are used to monitor activity within a dangerous work area. They can be used in stationary or mobile applications.

Charge coupled device (CCD) cameras contain light-sensitive silicon chips that detect electrons excited by incoming light. They also contain micro circuitry that transfers a detected signal along a row of discrete picture elements or pixels, scanning the image very rapidly. CCD cameras use two-dimensional CCD arrays with many thousand of pixels

Surface profilometers are contact or non-contact instruments used to measures surface profiles, roughness, waviness and other finish parameters.