‘Microfilm Scanning’ Articles
Written by Damian Hospital on 23 July 2009
Scanning360 is the king of microfilm scanning- with no middle men.
- Microfilm scanning
- Microfiche scanning
- Aperture card scanning
- Document scanning
- Convert fiche to PDF
- Digitize microfiche
- Digitize roll film
- Roll film to TIFF
- Convert microfilm to digital images
- Convert roll film to JPEG
- Cost for microfilm scanning
- Convert health records
- Digitize school records
- Scan Kodak color slides
- Microfilm scanner
- Microfiche scanner
- Aperture card scanner
- digitalizacion de microfilm
- Digitize 35mm roll film
- Convert 16mm roll film to image
- COM fiche scanning
- microfilm y microfichas
- Microfiche to PDF
- Transfer microfiche to image
- Florida microfilm scanning company
- 35mm archive writer
- 16mm archive writer
- Microfilm Goverment RFP Bids
Scanning360.com is one of the most efficient microfiche and microfilm scanning service companies. Using the best microfiche and microfilm scanners, Scanning360’s digital imaging processes include microfilm scanning services, microfiche scanning, aperture card conversion, document imaging, OCR, and more. In addition to 16mm and 35mm microfilm conversion, Scanning360 also performs digital imaging for COM fiche, jacketed microfiche, step-and-repeat cards, and rewritable microfiche.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 26 June 2009
It’s official…for the best microfilm scanning service go to Scanning360.com. If you are a reseller, organization, corporation, microfilm service bureau, government agency, small business, or independent, and you have want to convert microfiche, microfilm, aperture cards, Kodak color slides, or paper documents to digital image, contact us for a microfilm scanning quote and find out the cost of microfilm scanning today.
Scanning360.com is the headquarters for
- Microfilm scanning
- Microfiche scanning
- Aperture card scanning
- Document scanning
- Convert fiche to PDF
- Digitize microfiche
- Digitize roll film
- Roll film to TIFF
- Convert microfilm to digital images
- Convert roll film to JPEG
- Cost for microfilm scanning
- Convert health records
- Digitize school records
- Scan Kodak color slides
- Microfilm scanner
- Microfiche scanner
- Aperture card scanner
- digitalizacion de microfilm
- Digitize 35mm roll film
- Convert 16mm roll film to image
- COM fiche scanning
- microfilm y microfichas
- Microfiche to PDF
- Transfer microfiche to image
- Florida microfilm scanning company
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Written by Damian Hospital on 01 April 2009
An aperture card (also called PC card, hollerith card, 35mm hollerith) is a punched card with a 2×2 piece of 35mm film set on one side. They are used for the storage and retrieval of blueprints, drawing, maps or engineering drawings.
The 35mm (or 16mm) strip portion may contain one or more A size (8.5×11) through E size (44×34) [or above!] drawings. The title or other identifying information is hollerith keypunched into the aperture card across the top.
If you are looking for an aperture card scanning company with the experience to run an aperture card scanner, check out Scanning360 in sunny South Florida.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 10 March 2009
Scanning360 is composed of the core team from the leading microfilm scanning and digital microfilm conversion company in Florida, and one of the most efficient microfilm scanning companies in the world. Scanning360’s staff comes from the company which was the pioneer in microfilm scanning to digital conversion and processing. Scanning360’s partners have scanned over a billion images since 1997 and have the references to back it up. Scanning360 has all the high end microfilm scanners and microfiche scanners.
Over the years, Scanning360’s personnel has set the standard for the entire industry. Their services are rooted in being a trusted partner for all of your microfilm scanning needs, 16 mm and 35 mm film to digital conversion, indexing, microfiche scanning (COM fiche scanning, jackets, etc.) , aperture card scanning, and document imaging.
Scanning360 also has active blogs which describe microfilm services and digital imaging.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 16 February 2009
Microfilm preparation: Many organizations and private individuals handle microfilm on a daily basis to access their information. Although this has been a common practice for many years, microfilm scanning technologies has been changing this dynamic. Whether you have 16mm film, 35mm film, COM fiche cards, or aperture Cards that store your documents, you are probably thinking there has to be a better way.
The process of microfilm scanning has been around for some time now, only a few well established microfilm conversion organizations- like Scanning360.com- have the required equipment and knowledge to safeguard your film and to achieve the best possible digital conversion results. Microfilm scanning companies will transfer the information you have on your microfilm to a digital format, such as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, etc. Digital imaging is ideal for storing and retrieving documents.
In the meantime, while you are still using you microfilm as your document source, make sure you do all you can to conserve the integrity of the 16 mm or 35 mm film. This is the first step in microfilm preparation. Keep the film reels in a temperature and humidity control environment. The rolls also has a very sensitive side which is called the emulsion side. This is what makes up the image on the film. It is very sensitive to scratches.
Lastly, there is the issue of time. If your 16 mm or 35 mm reels are beginning to smell like vinegar, you need to consider document imaging as a way to preserve the information. The smell you sense may be the natural process of your fiche decomposing. If you do nothing, you may lose all, your data.
Digital imaging is ideal for storing and retrieving documents.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 13 February 2009
For over 12 years, the staff from Scanning360 has provided microfilm conversions for hundreds of scanning bureaus, major corporations, counties, local, state, and federal government, hospitals, colleges and universities, libraries, small businesses, and more.
Scanning360’s ustomer service, image quality, turnaround time, quality control, and microfiche conversion prices are the best in the industry.
Scanning360’s partners are well aware of the industry market trends, and expectations from clients and organizations. Scanning360 is also well aware that many in the industry have “store front” websites and outsource the scanning of microfilm and microfiche to 3rd world countries. However, thanks to Scanning360’s efficiency and experience Scanning360 can match the lower scanning prices per image, and the conversion is performed in-house in Florida. Unlike some other companies, Scanning360 has the references to backup all the accomplishments, and since Scanning360 are not the “middle-men”, there are no mark up costs.
The staff from Scanning360.com has successfully completed thousands of projects, and truly have a superior expertise in the microiche scanning industry.
Such services include: microfilm scanning (16mm roll film, 35mm roll film, duplex, etc.) microfiche scanning (COM fiche, jacketed fiche, A/B Dick, etc.) aperture card scanning, Kodak color slide scanning, 35mm photo negative scanning, data entry, image indexing, roll film blip extraction, SQL database matches, Florida paper document scanning, autocropping, manual cropping, image deskewing, and other image conversion processes.
Scanning360 can output images to: TIFFs, multi-tiffs, JPGs, PDFs, multi-pdfs, OCR searchable PDFs, and many other image filetypes. Click here to get a microfilm scanning quote.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 22 July 2008
If you need to convert C4 to PDF, JPEG to PDF, TIFF to PDF, or any other image file conversions, contact Scanning360. They have been working with image files for decades, and can get you out of jams with file renaming, folder renaming, and various image or document conversions.
Here are just some file extensions he works with: .tif, .bmp, . pdf., .c4, .jpg, .gif, and much more. works with bi-tonal, greyscale, and color images.
This company can perform image processing on scanned images from paper documents, microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, color slides, or your own images. They also have OCR document solutions as well.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 09 July 2008
If your organization or office has paper documents (mortgages, deeds, medical, blueprints, contracts, engineering drawings, human resource documents, etc.) it makes sense to digitize them to PDFs, TIFFs, or JPGs.
Contact Scanning360 for assistance.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 02 July 2008
If you work with microfilm or microfiche, you should be thinking about a microfilm scanning conversion and work with digital images. Having original or duplicated film or fiche does make a difference in conversion quality.
Preservation standards require a master negative, a duplicate negative, and a positive copy.
Silver halide film results in a negative copy. Master negatives are kept in storage, and duplicate negatives are used to create copies, which available to researchers. Unfortunately, many clients send microfilm scanning companies these used and scratched versions!
Diazo film (ammonia dye) creates blue or black dye positive copies.
Vesicular film is created with diazo dye, and developed by heat. Generally microfilm conversions are poor.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 30 June 2008
We all know that paper documents really can’t stand the test of time. Many government agencies and state counties have laws that make preserving important documents on microfilm. Independent organizations and businesses with high volume paper see the need to create microfilm from paper documents, for two three major reasons:
- A roll of film (which can store thousands of documents) obviously takes up much less room than paper, rand reduces storage space needs by 95%.
- If stored and handled correctly, microfilm can last up to 500 years, and can be duplicated as well.
- Using a microfilm viewer or microfilm reader, agencies can search for records easier.
That being said, microfilm scanning (digitizing the microfilm images) has been the way to go since the mid-1990’s. Now you can store millions of documents on a hard drive. They can be PDFs, JPEGS, TIFFS, or any type of image you can work with.
Of course, buying a $100,000 scanner and knowing how to operate is out of the question. If you need a microfilm scanning job or a paper document to film job, you have to find a competent company, like Scanning 360.com.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 27 June 2008
Looking for an excellent provider of aperture card scanning and hollerith code reading? Scanning360’s scanners can digitize aperture cards (PC cards) of any drawing size, at any DPI required. This company’s turnaround time is fast and the work performed is of outstanding quality.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 24 June 2008
Scanning360 can digitally convert different types of media without costing you and arm and a leg: 16mm roll film (simplex or duplex), 16mm cartridges, 16mm microfiche jackets, 35mm roll film, 35mm jackets (hard or soft plastic), COM (Computer Output Media) fiche, step-and-repeat fiche, aperture cards (hollerith code read), color slides, film negatives, ultra fiche, and more. Don’t see a media here?
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Written by Damian Hospital on 24 June 2008
In today’s microfilm market, you have to diversify to stay ahead of the game. Scanning360.com provides the highest quality Florida paper scanning, microfilm scanning, film processing, disaster recovery, film archiving, and so much more.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 23 June 2008
Scanning360.com has a reputation for scanning paper at high quality, in whatever format or indexing requirements you need. They have successfully scanned hundreds of paper scanning projects, and although the majority of their clients are from South Florida, they have serviced paper scanning jobs from all across the United States. They have digitized such document types as medical records, law firm documents, maps, plats, manuals and technical specifications, permits, personnel & correspondence files, loan & mortgage documents, commercial & personal banking documents, photographs, architectural & engineering Drawings, and much more.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 23 June 2008
Finding the right microfilm scanning company is tough. Let me share with you some horror stories from organizations who chose the WRONG microfilm scanning company:
- The initial quote was doubled with no warning after the microfilm scanning company received the film.
- There was no communication- phone or e-mail- regarding when the project was received, status reports, or when it was delivered.
- It was delivered to the wrong address.
- Obviously, no quality control was done, because images were missing, cut-off, and indexing incorrectly.
- Microfiche turned up missing.
- Digitized images were unreadable and upside down
- The project was sent to India without permission
If you want to avoid these problems, contact Scanning360.com for an honest professional small business that is quality orientated, with no bait and switches or scams.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 12 June 2008
A lot of people I know think that microfilm is a James Bond joke or only exist in old libraries, but the inside scoop is that microfilm creation, microfilm storage, and microfilm scanning are businesses that generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year for various companies.
A company like Scanning 360.com has many solutions for the long term storage and archive capabilities for microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, paper scanning, Kodak slides, data entry indexing, databases, and other microfilm digitizing services.
Scanning360 is a small business in South Florida, and unlike large corporations that probably outsource your film and images overseas, your microfilm, microfiche, paper, or digitizing project is handled with a personalized and professional touch.
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