Kodak Truper 3210 review: specs and price

Flatbed scanners are able to scan anything that can be placed against the glass. You need a scanner with a flatbed for photos or other easily damaged originals, bound material, and 3D objects. Usually flexible lid makes it possible to scan thick documents or even books.

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The duty cycle is the maximum number of pages you can scan each day and still get the scanner to live out its full life (measured in days or years).

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Maximum scan size shows maximum dimensions of the scanned document.

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Bit depth means the number of bits per pixel, so the higher the bit depth, the greater number of grayscales the system can scan.

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Bit depth means the number of bits per pixel, so the higher the bit depth, the greater number of colors the system can scan.

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The highest resolution the scanner can put out without using software to make it bigger. In dots per inch.

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Automatic document feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner or copier, allowing the user to scan, copy, print, or fax, multiple-page documents without having to manually replace each page.

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With the Skip Blank Page function while scanning one-sided and two-sided documents at the same time, you can delete images of blank pages to produce scanned images without redundancy. This function is also effective with colored-paper documents that are blank.

Duplex scanning means scanning both sides of a page at once.

Automatic document feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner or copier, allowing the user to scan, copy, print, or fax, multiple-page documents without having to manually replace each page.

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Newer USB versions are faster and have better power management.

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How much power the device consumes when it's switched on.

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How much power the device consumes when shut down but still plugged in.

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Auto Scan Mode detects the type of document being scanned – Photo, Post Card, Business Card, Magazine, Newspaper, Document – and automatically crops and saves files to PDF or JPEG format based on image type.

A special sensor that can detect when two or more pages are stuck together and going through the scanner at the same time.

ADF allows multiple pages to be copied or scanned at one time without the need to place each individual page in the copier or scanner. You will need an ADF if you plan to scan documents on a regular basis—particularly documents longer than one or two pages.

If you have lots of long documents, a higher capacity might be of interest.

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