Monolith, a Bellevue based company uses a 3D scanner to enhance the realness of there programs. Handheld scanners were popular a few years ago but with the radical cost reduction of flatbed scanners, the market is not what it used to be. Scanning in pages of magazines and books and then converting them to usable text makes tasks such as research work a snap. Film scanners take slides and transparencies and convert them to usable images. Unfortunately, the ones that produce the necessary resolution are still on the expensive side.
Flatbed scanners are by far the most popular of all.
Easy to use, they operate very much like the company photocopy machine.