| A | B |
| CCD | Charge coupled device |
| Compression | Reducing digicam file size |
| dpi | dots per inch |
| ppi | pixels per inch |
| Inkjet | A type of printing where dots of ink are sprayed on the paper, more dots better quality |
| ISO | International Standards Equivalency |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| LCD Monitor | Liquid Crystal Display |
| Megapixel | One million pixels |
| noise | excessive grain in pictures due to high ISO level |
| resizing | Changing the size of a digital Image |
| Resolution | A measure of how much information( how clear) a digital picture is |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| Pixel | Basic element of resolution, stands for Picture Element |
| TWAIN | driver for scanners, technology without and interesting name |
| scanner | device that copies documents and puts them into digital files on a computer |
| OCR software | Optical character recognition, software that converts pictures of numbers and words into word processing documents |
| Flatbed | clear glass portion of the scanner |
| Digital Camera | device that takes digital pictures |
| crop | cutting off a portion of a picture or image |