A line-scan camera is a camera device including a line-scan image sensor chip, and a targeting mechanism. These cameras are virtually only utilized in economic settings to capture a picture of a continuing stream of moving material. Unlike other digital cameras, line-scan cameras utilize a single spread of pixel sensors, rather than a matrix of them. Information coming from the line-scan camera has a frequency, where the camera scans a line, waits, and repeats. The information coming from the line-scan camera is sometimes processed by a PC, to gather the one-dimensional line information and to form a two-dimensional image. The picked up two-dimensional image information is then processed by image-processing techniques for economic purposes.

Line-scan technology is really capable of capturing information very fast, and at extraordinarily high image resolutions. Generally under these conditions, ensuing picked up image information can rapidly surpass a hundred MB in a tiny part of a second. Line-scan-camera based integrated systems are generally built to streamline the camera's output so as to meet the system's objective while making use of PC technology which is also cheap.

Line-scan cameras reserved for the parcel handling industry can integrate adaptive targeting mechanisms to scan six sides of any oblong parcel in focus, without regard for angle, and size. The ensuing 2 Dimensional pictures that are caught could contain, but aren't restricted to 1 Dimensional and 2 Dimensional barcodes, address information, and any pattern that may be processed through image processing strategies. Since the pictures are 2 Dimensional, they also are human-readable and can be comfortably viewed on a PC screen. Complicated integrated systems include video coding and optical character recognition (OCR).