What's the difference between Main Hopper and Manual Drop?

What's the difference between Main Hopper and Manual Drop?

The Main Hopper will feed continuously until the hopper is empty, an exception occurs, or the feed count is reached.

Manual Drop will feed continuously until stop feeding is called, an exception occurs, or the feed count is reached.

In larger scanners, there may be two separate hoppers for this.

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