A cool feature of GIMP is its ability to connect to a scanner. If the scanner has TWIN compliant driver, then it can be connected to GIMP. TWAIN is an application program interface and communication ...

Imaging at very low-light-levels has applications spanning many diverse fields of interest including biological imaging and covert security protocols. A typical image taken with a conventional camera ...

The dodo is the most well-known victim of human-caused extinction. And though our culture is rife with caricatures of the bird, for a long time we've had little idea how dodos actually looked and ...

Rice University geophysicists conducted a seismic CT scan of the upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau and concluded that that most of the uplift across Southern Tibet occurred within 10 million ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great grandparents, ...

Large format scanners are getting faster batch processing — while using less energy. On Tuesday, Epson announced the Expression 12000XL, a tabloid-sized high-resolution scanner with both enhanced scan ...