Which of the following is ideally suited to get a digital copy of a content…
2026
Which of the following is ideally suited to get a digital copy of a content available on a paper sheet?
Answer: A. Scanner — Concept: Computer peripherals are classified by the direction in which data travels. An input device carries data from the outside world into the computer; an…
- A.
Scanner
- B.
Plotter
- C.
Joy Stick
- D.
Light Pen
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Correct answer: A
Concept: Computer peripherals are classified by the direction in which data travels. An input device carries data from the outside world into the computer; an output device carries data from the computer out to the physical world. Digitisation is the input operation that turns an artefact which already exists physically into a machine-readable file by optically sampling its surface point by point.
Application: The stem asks for content that already exists on a paper sheet to end up as a digital copy, so two conditions must hold at once - the data must travel from the paper into the computer (an input device), and the capture must be optical across a whole printed surface rather than typed, pointed or drawn. A scanner meets both: a lamp illuminates the sheet, a CCD or CIS sensor samples the reflected light line by line, and those samples are assembled into a raster image file, which OCR software can further convert into editable text.
Cross-check - what each listed device actually does:
Device | What it does |
|---|---|
Scanner | optical input; samples a whole printed surface and stores it as a digital image file. |
Plotter | output; drives a pen or ink head along computed coordinate paths to draw large-format line drawings onto paper. |
Joy Stick | input; reports the direction and tilt of a pivoting lever as continuous axis values for motion control. |
Light Pen | input; reports a coordinate on a display screen by sensing the screen's scanning beam. |
Result: only the scanner both moves data from paper into the computer and captures it optically, so the scanner is the device ideally suited to producing a digital copy of a printed sheet.