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ELMO is the name of the company most commonly associated with document cameras, and has become a the way that many refer to them, regardless of the manufacturer. (Like “Kleenex”, “Xerox”, or “TiVo” in their respective fields.)<\/p>\n

Document cameras, also known as “digital overheads”, or “doc-cams”, are basically cameras mounted on arms and pointed down so they can capture images of paper or other objects. In turn, these images are displayed to a large audience using a projector.<\/p>\n

Document cameras are typically used in classrooms or science labs and connected to video projectors. They replaced overhead projectors, which were formerly used for this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ELMO is the name of the company most commonly associated with document cameras, and has become a the way that many refer to them, regardless of the manufacturer. (Like “Kleenex”, “Xerox”, or “TiVo” in their respective fields.) Document cameras, also known as “digital overheads”, or “doc-cams”, are basically cameras mounted on arms and pointed down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-979","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/979\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}