Error scanning banknotes?!

It's not legislated, it's "voluntary" on the part of Adobe, Canon, et al.

 

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Not really its for anti counterfeiting reasons

 

From the Adobe Web site:

Photoshop and CDS

Adobe® Photoshop® software includes a counterfeit deterrence system (CDS) that prevents the use of the product to illegally duplicate banknotes. As implemented, CDS prevents users from opening detailed images of banknotes within Photoshop. The CDS technology was commissioned by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG), a consortium of central banks from around the world. Adobe has included CDS in Photoshop at the request of the CBCDG.

Laws regarding the reproduction of currency images vary widely from country to country. In some countries, reproduction is permitted for specific purposes given certain restrictions, but in other countries any form of reproduction is considered a crime. For complete information about the rules in a given country, please consult CBCDG’s Web site, www.rulesforuse.org. Where applicable, this Web site will also indicate where you can obtain legally reproducible currency images, and who to contact for further questions and information.

In the event that you are unable to get your currency-related question answered through the rulesforuse.org Web site, please send an e-mail to photoshopcds@adobe.com. Adobe will see to it that your request is forwarded to the appropriate person at the CBCDG.

 

You can scan images of US banknotes and always have been able to as long as they are not the exact size of the note. There is no law that says you cannot scan US notes.

 

Here is the actual law.

Regulations for Reproducing US Currency Images


PART 411 — COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITED STATES CURRENCY
Authority: 18 U.S.C. 504; Treasury Directive Number 15-56, 58 FR 48539 (September 16, 1993)
Source: 61 FR 27281, May 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

§ 411.1 Color illustrations authorized.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 25 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, authority is hereby given for the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publishing, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:
(1) The illustration be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;
(2) The illustration be one-sided; and
(3) All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.
(b) [Reserved].

 

Cool! I was right when I remembered that they could not be the exact same size as the note. thanks Clay.