Microfilm Scanning
Do you have reels of 16/35mm roll film but no way to quickly access them and no backups if the worst happens?
Microfilm offers a compact form of storage but they require expensive readers and printers. They can be viewed by only one person at a time and you need to have back-up copies stored off-site or in a fireproof safe.
Document Scanning scan your microfilms and can archive them with all your other documents, making them instantly available to any user to access.
Existing microfilm archives on 16mm or 35mm roll films or cartridges or microfiche can be scanned to create digital images, indexed and written to CD. Using specialised scanners we can also scan rare microfilm formats, such as colour microfilm, and old quarter and half plates.
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Microfiche Scanning
Do you have 16mm/35mm or even half plates of Microfiche but no way to quickly access them and no backups in case the worst happens?
Fiche is a generic term for all microforms measuring approx. 6" x 4". These sheets can store microfilm images of A4 and A3 documents at 24 x reduction, and up to 270 images of computer data at 48 x reduction.
Microfiche jackets hold up to 5 strips of 16mm film, and from 60 to 70 pages per fiche. Fiche can be scanned per image as per other documents.
Once
scanned, the images are:
 - Stored alphabetically and therefore easily located.
- Available to all authorised computer users.
- Not taking up physical storage space.
- Safe from misfiling and potential loss.
- Easily distributed and printed.
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Aperture Card Scanning
Do you have 35mm Aperture cards with or without Hollerith (punch holes) indexes but no way to quickly access them and no backups if the worst happens?
Our aperture card scanning machines ensure that any cards can be transferred onto CD or stored electronically. We can index them to customers requirements and deliver via a Microsoft® compatible database or proprietary document management application.
The
aperture card below contain Hollerith punch codes. Cards with
Hollerith are cheaper to process since they do not have to be manually indexed
as the Hollerith contains drawing information. Important codes are size, drawing number,
revision and sheet number. Without this information the cost for the conversion may increase due to extra indexing requirements.
Once scanned, Aperture Cards are:
- Easy to retrieve.
- Reduces storage space requirements.
- Print and distribution facility.
- Multi user availability.
- No misplaced/misfiled drawings, no searching endless cabinets.
- No damage to originals
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35MM Slides
Scanning is relatively easy, and very fast with the services that Document Scanning can provide, but in the 60's and 70's, the 35mm slide was “king,” and everyone had a projector and screen to share the photographs at family gatherings. These 35mm slides are now consigned to the back of the draw, the projector has all but disappeared and these memories are in danger of never being seen again. As time goes by, it will be more difficult to find a resolution to this problem.
A part of family history will be, in effect, lost.
Document Scanning as the specialists, can quickly and easily convert these slides into digital format, thereby allowing those lost memories to, at least, give the grand children a good laugh!
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