0 a piece of computer equipment with a flat glass base on which you lay a document or book in order to copy the page into a computer
1 a type of scanner (= piece of equipment that makes a copy of a document, picture, etc. so that it can be stored and used on a computer) on which the item to be copied can be laid flat:
You can think of production scanners as industrial-strength flatbed scanners.
Developed film was then digitized using a high-resolution flatbed scanner.
Leaf area was measured using a flatbed scanner.
First, the optical resolution of a flatbed scanner can exceed 5000 pixels per inch (200 pixels per mm).
While drum scanners are capable of scanning both reflective and transmissive artwork, a good-quality flatbed scanner can produce good scans from reflective artwork.
The stained sections were scanned and digitized using a flatbed scanner, creating a one terabyte raw record.
An amateur attempt using a flatbed scanner lacked satisfactory fidelity.
