Question

________are peripheral devices used to digitize artwork, photographs, text, or other items from hard copy.

Select one:
Scanners
plotters
Monitors
Printers

Answer 1

Scanners are peripheral devices used to digitize artwork, photographs, text, or other items from hard copy.

It is an external device that scans any document ( hard copy) optically to generate digital or soft copies of the document.

Scanners can be of various types such as flatbed, CCD, Drum, Contact image sensing scanner, etc.

Answer 2

The correct answer to the question, among all the options given is  

a. Scanners

Scanners are devices that are used for scanning photographs, artworks or texts from the hard copy and transfer them as a soft copy to computers. Printers just do the opposite. They print texts or pictures from the computer and furnish them as a hard copy.

So the correct answer is scanners.