ok, so. a photocopy of a page of text. surely that is an image?

it looks like i made the timeline for this poll shorter than usual, but there’s no way to fix that now! vote while you have the chance!

neat, so if i scan a page of text and then print it out, surely that is an image too, right?

yall

what do you think a photocopy is

@Lady *looks at you like a cat next to the waterglass on your kitchen counter and pointedly presses the "if it's artefacted enough" button again*

@Lady So in the *hastily checks Wikipedia* '80s +/- a decade or so, maybe or maybe not, depends on the particular picture, intention, and use, and I don't know all the parameters or bounds in play here,

but nowadays certainly yes.

(Also why doesn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_film have a History section.)

@Lady *once more presses the---*

(But like. very much most of the time it's not.)

@Lady depends which result you're talking about. If you're talking about the printout as I'd assume, then I'd say no. It's on a piece of paper, not in a computer file, so it's text, not an image. The png or whatever that you obtained from the scan is an image, however.

@unspeakablehorror i was indeed referring to the printout

@Lady Same thing a printout of a scan would be. If the original source was text, the photocopy of that source would also be text.

@unspeakablehorror this was my thought, but the polls disagree

@Lady Which polls? The one asking if a printout of a scan is an image too got a majority nos, so I would assume that majority considers photocopy text too. Unless there was a photocopy poll I didn't see?

@unspeakablehorror the photocopy poll was immediately preceding

@Lady Ah, okay! Yeah, I didn't see that one for some reason.

@Lady Hey, at least I'm consistent.