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21:21 Jul 28, 2014 

Thank you billcorno but I have decided to use "image of the line" as I have been using it throughout the document, it just seemed odd here but Uta helped point me in the right direction.
@Uta, would you like to enter your suggestion?

21:05 Jul 28, 2014 

If the document doesn't move (as in a flatbed scanner), the light and lens move over the document as a line creating a line of values that are read and recorded by a sensor. After the whole document is recorded, a full image of lines is created to make a picture of the document. Thus an image of lines or line picture. (If it's a dia-scanner or film-scanner, then the document moves and the light, lens and sensor are stationary.)

23:13 Jul 24, 2014 

Yes that would make sense. Perhaps I'm overthinking the problem here, I'm confused how, if the "line, lens and light" are being moved over the original, the "image of the line" can also be moved in parallel over the original. Or is it just so obvious that I can't see the wood for the trees. Do they perhaps mean if the unit = scanner is moving over the document, the image it is capturing is also moving with it?

21:46 Jul 24, 2014 

Well, I understand the second sentence as follows: The location on the original which corresponds to the image of the line [that is scanned] is illuminated...

21:14 Jul 24, 2014 

That is what I have been using so far "image of the line" but it doesn't seem to make sense to me here, particularly in the second sentence.

19:58 Jul 24, 2014 

"image of the line" maybe? This term is frequently used in the context of scanning. It might work in this case as well.