| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | bar code scanner | 條碼掃描器 (An optical device that uses a laser beam to read and interpret bar codes, such as the Universal Product Codes, found on grocery products and other retail items) |
| comp., MS | face scanner | 臉部掃描器 (A biometric sensor that analyses data points on your face to recognize or authenticate identity) |
| comp., MS | flatbed scanner | 平台掃描器 (A scanner with a flat, transparent surface that holds the image to be scanned, generally a book or other paper document. A scan head below the surface moves across the image. Some flatbed scanners can also reproduce transparent media, such as slides) |
| comp., MS | handheld scanner | 掌上型掃描器 (A type of scanner used as follows: the user passes the scan head, contained within a handheld unit, over the medium being scanned, such as a piece of paper) |
| comp., MS | hand-held scanner | 掌上型掃描器 (A type of scanner used as follows: the user passes the scan head, contained within a handheld unit, over the medium being scanned, such as a piece of paper) |
| comp., MS | language service scanner | 語言服務掃描器 (A component that is used to identify types of tokens in source code. This information is used for syntax highlighting and for quickly identifying token types that can trigger other operations, for example, brace matching) |
| comp., MS | malware scanner | 惡意程式碼掃描器 (Software used to scan for and eradicate malicious software) |
| comp., MS | network scanner | 網路掃描器 (A scanner that is not connected directly to a computer, but is instead connected directly to a network through a wired or wireless connection) |
| comp., MS | Proactive Scanner | 主動式掃描工具 (An automated proactive scan that triggers when NTFS detects a corruption. The scan is equivalent to the scan phase of chkdsk and finds and logs all corruptions to an internal file. This scan runs during maintenance hours, can be triggered from the Explorer, or manually run from a command line. When this scan is running in the background, some NTFS operations may be blocked) |
| comp., MS | retinal scanner | 視網膜掃描器 (A biometric sensor that analyses your eye retina to recognize or authenticate identity) |
| comp., MS | virus scanner | 病毒掃描程式 (Software used to scan for and eradicate computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses) |
| comp., MS | Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner | Windows Live OneCare 安全掃瞄 (The free online on-demand tool that conducts three types of scans: the protection scan checks for and removes things like viruses and malware; the clean-up scan checks the hard disk for unnecessary files and helps users decide which ones they can safely remove, and also clears the computer's registry of orphaned data; the tune-up scan helps improve the computer's performance by defragmenting the hard disk) |