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Scanners can only be used as an input device.
They scan the image placed inside/ontop and digitalise it and display it on your computer screen.
The only type of scanner that can output is an "all-in-one" scanner/printer that can print out the images you scan in or other images from your PC, but that is not technically a scanner, it is a scanner, printer combination.
So no, Scanners can only be used as input devices.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt is an input device as it sends data into the processor; in this case the scanned image. A peripheral such as a printer is an output device as it receives data from the printer.
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∙ 14y agothe input on a scanner is usually a picture on a piece of paper
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∙ 16y agooutput device
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∙ 14y agoIT IS an input device.-
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