Within a 9-month project, we developed the prototype of an area scanner, which was funded by the Bavarian program for the promotion of technology-oriented start-ups (BayTOU). In the course of development, we at Rasch-Diascan decided to combine the Sony α7R III system camera with a specialized industrial lens. Sony is the world's largest manufacturer of image sensors, which are built into many brands in the consumer market and in industrial cameras. It took another 12 months for the software-based process of «IR-Clean» to start with the market launch of an innovative scanning service. The camera scanner developed on this basis has the following technical features: