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flying-aperture scanner

flying-aperture scanner

[¦flī·iŋ ¦ap·ər·chər ‚skan·ər]
(electronics)
An optical scanner, used in character recognition, in which a document is flooded with light, and light is collected sequentially spot by spot from the illuminated image.
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