Scanner may refer to:
Technology
For invisible radiation
- Scanner (radio), for searching for and receiving radio broadcasts
- Scanner, a rotating radar antenna
- Neutron scanner, a scanner which utilizes neutrons to analyze objects
For (near) light
- Image scanner, which digitizes a two-dimensional image
- 3D scanner, which digitizes the three-dimensional shape of a real object
- Motion picture film scanner, which scans original film for storage as a digital file
- Barcode reader, which reads the data encoded in a barcode
- Laser scanner, which guides a laser beam along a path, sometimes combined with a measurement
- Stepper, a part of the photolithography process
- Scanner, an automated stage light
Security
- Biometric device, a security identification and authentication device
- Full body scanner
Computing
- Port scanner, in computer networking
- Virus scanner
- Vulnerability scanner, a computer program that probes for weaknesses
- Lexical analyzer, a computer program
- Scanner (software), a disk space analyzing and management tool for Microsoft Windows
Medical
Other
- Scan tool, an automotive electronic control unit diagnostic tool
Arts and entertainment
- Scanner (band), a German speed metal band
- Scanners (band), an alternative band from London
- "Scanners Live in Vain", science fiction story written in 1945 by Cordwainer Smith
- Scanner, the stage name of British electronic musician Robin Rimbaud
- Scanner (Code Lyoko), a fictional teleportation device
- Scanner (Half-Life), a floating enemy in the Half-Life video game series
- Scanners, a 1981 science fiction horror film
- "Scanners" (Superstore), an episode of the television series Superstore
See also
- WikiScanner, a tool that provided a searchable database of anonymous Misplaced Pages edits
- Scan (disambiguation)
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