The invention relates to digital scanning imaging by electromagnetic radiation. To reduce the difference between the resolutions in, the scanning direction and the direction perpendicular thereto, pixels (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , P 4 , P 5 , P 6 ) in the scanning direction are connected to counters (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ) through switching means (Sm 1 , Sm 2 , Sm 3 ) which allow pulses to be directed to the counter of a neighboring pixel, in addition to its own pixel, for counting, whereby the reading area can be divided into a plurality of "partial pixels" and by suitably changing the switch positions, it is possible to follow the imaging scan as reading areas formed by the "partial pixels".
