1.   A rescue worker scans a video feed from a robot burrowing into rubble at the site.

2.   The software enables workers to scan documents into a computer and shuttle the image from one worker to another.

3.   When you place your items on the conveyer and watch the minimum-wage worker carelessly scan them, what confidence do you have that the system will work?

4.   As soon as the worker has scanned the barcode attached to an item, the information is recorded on the server and available online in the back office.

5.   By Thursday afternoon, emergency workers had scanned the rubble with thermal imaging and audio sensing machines, to no avail.

6.   Rescue workers were scanning the river.