Microtek ScanMaker 6100 Pro User Manual page 112

Transparency and slide scanners, which are used to scan
transparent materials such as filmstrips and slides.
Components of effective scanning
The scanner is only one part of the scanning system. In addition to
the scanner, you need these other components:
A special cable to connect your scanner and computer
Scanning software that controls how the scanner works
Image-editing software to integrate scanned images into your
work; or OCR software to integrate scanned text into your
work.
A suitable monitor to display color and grayscale images
A device for outputting your work such as a black and white or
color printer, dye sublimation printer, image setter or other
color proofing device.
In addition to the basic components, you can use these scanner
accessories to make your scanning even more effective:
Transparent Media Adapter (TMA): for scanning slides,
filmstrips, and transparencies
Auto Document Feeder (ADF): Helps with text scanning by
allowing continuous scanning of up to 50 pages of text.
Image types
For a computer to represent image information in a digital format,
the computer uses units of picture elements, or pixels.
An image file, for instance, is simply a representation of hundreds,
thousands, or even millions of pixels arranged in a grid, and