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Overview - Microfilm Scanning Services
Scanning of most microfilm formats, including:
16/35mm rollfilm, 16/35mm microfiche, aperture cards and 105mm/70mm microfilms.
This scanning service is generally available either on-site or
off-site
depending on your exact requirement and the microfilm format. Typically 2,500 A0 monochrome microfilm aperture cards can be
scanned and stored on just one 650Mb CD ROM. Smaller formats (A4
16mm microfilm) can achieve 20,000 images per CD ROM.
Today, there seems little point in investing in more
expensive microfilm reproduction equipment. Generally, the more cost
effective and efficient solution
is to invest your budget in converting the microfilm to a digital format that
can easily be searched, viewed, distributed and printed using existing PC's and peripherals
on your network such as existing A4, A3 and even A0 laser printers.
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Microfilm
Formats
Aperture cards
16 and
35mm fiche
16 and
35mm rollfilm
105/70mm negatives
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Typical Applications for Microfilm
Scanning
Microfilm aperture cards (typically engineering
drawings or
estate type information)
16 and 35mm rollfilm (typically A4 archive
documentation)
Microfiche (16 and 35mm or combination
fiche)
70mm and 105mm negatives from large
format engineering drawings.
Scans
and index information can be returned on CD ROM complete with search, view, print software
which can be easily configured for network access
and well as local CD based access, alternatively the data can be loaded onto the
DDMS Browser document management
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Technical
Information
Scanned information can be supplied in many different
formats. Standard formats are as follows:
TIFF (Tagged Image
File Format) the most standard raster format
PDF (Portable Data
Format), which can be a simple raster scan or can include OCR
information, for cutting and pasting to other applications
GIF, generally used
for internet applications
JPEG for
colour images
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