Getting a Microfilm Conversion - 16mm roll film scanning or 35mm film conversion

Are you looking for the best solution for your microfilm inventory? Are you looking to do away with the cost of maintaining the microfilm library ? Are you concerned with aging microfilm or your microfilm decomposing?

If you have thought of any of these situations, you should probably contact a qualified professional. Scanning Depot's staff has helped many customers in similar situations. We will provide you with the solution that best suits your microfilm conversion needs.

Converting your microfilm to a digital format has many advantages. It saves valuable space, eliminates the labor of maintaining a microfilm library, can provide an efficient storage and retrieval system, and allows for an efficient customer service process, and more.

In light of the economic issues we are all facing, a microfilm conversion process is less of an option and more of a necessity. It just makes sense. The initial investment is recovered in a short time, not to mention if film degradation is already an issue.

Scanning Depot will help preserve the integrity of your documents, no matter what the business economic conditions are. Having been in business for many years, we can provide you with ta great price, regardless of the size of the project. And if turnaround is a concern for you, Scanning Depot can work 24/7 to make sure your business does not miss a minute.

Buy Used Microfiiche Scanner or Outsource Microfiche Scanning?

With so many microfiche scanners on the market to perform document imaging, before you go out and invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on scanning equipment (or buy used document scanners on ebay with no warranty), you should consider the cost effectiveness of having a microfiche scanning company perform the digital conversion.

If your organization or company has COM fiche, jacket fiche, step-and-repeat microfiche, or rewritable fiche, it is generally cheaper and quicker to have Scanning Depot convert the microfiche scanning than it is to invest in Sunrise, NextScan, Wicks & Wilson, or Mekel microfiche scanners.

You may feel that spending money on microfiche scanners is a quick solution, but it's not. Consider labor, scheduling, training, and maintenance. Also consider what you want to do with the microfiche scanners after you complete the digital conversion. Do you want to get into the niche market of digital microfiche conversion? Or will you microfiche scanners sit and depreciate in value?

Trust me, learning how to digitize microfiche in a production environment is not easy as you'd think, especially when you have to supervise and manage the document imaging processes. When you include the hours of labor to the cost of scanning hardware and software, you are not looking at a profit.

That's why companies send their microfiche to Scanning Depot. Even microfich scanning companies with their own scanners would be wise send fiche to Scanning Depot because of the time and cost benefits.

35mmRoll Film Scanning and Scanning 16mm Microfilm

If you are an imaging microfilm service bureau, microfilm company, or document archiving company, being a Scanning Depot partner is a great opportunity to maximize your profits. Subcontracting microfilm scanning services to Scanning Depot enables you to add a new profit center to your existing business at absolutely no cost to you. Scanning Depot still has the most experienced staff in the industry today, and are experts in 16mm roll film scanning, 35mm roll film conversion, document imaging, digital imaging, and has various microfilm scanners, such as NextStar and SunRise scanners.

Microfiche to pdf cost

Converting microfiche to PDF is a specialty of Scanning Depot, who has great microfiche scanning pricing in the microfiche scanning and digital conversion industry.

More and more clients have been requested microfiche to PDF transfers. The PDF can be a multi-pdf by the microfiche title header, or sequential single page PDFs, whatever directory structure or naming format you need.

So what the cost to transfer microfiche to PDF? It depends on microfiche volume and microfiche type (COM fiche, jacketed microfiche, or step-and-repeat fiche) and if you have any image indexing requirements.

Feel free to contact me for a digitizing microfiche quote. I'd be more than happy to assist you.

Digitize Microfilm with 16mm Roll Film Scanning or 35mm Scanning

If you have a 16mm or 35mm roll film microfilm scanning project to convert and you are looking for a do-it-yourself scanning solution, feel free to contact Scanning Depot for assistance. We can give you information that will be invaluable for your success.

If you are in a microfilm business and are looking to expand your capabilities, or even if you are not in the records management industry, Scanning Depot can help you achieve your goals. We can give you wholesale microfilm scanning prices so that you can make the profit you need. You will get fast turnaround on all your digitizing needs. If you are interested in this type of business, contact us and we will get you up to speed on all you need to know about reselling microfilm scanning services.

Consider this: becoming a direct affiliate with a microfilm scanning company means that we are all in a mutually beneficial partnership, and here at Scanning Depot the end user always comes first. If you are in sales in any industry, keep your eyes and ears open for such opportunities like 16mm roll film conversion, 35mm roll film digitizing, transfer microfiche to digital image, color slide scanning, and aperture card conversions.

Subcontracting microfilm scanning services and outsourcing microfiche scanning is a great way to make profits for you or your company.

Sales Tips For 16mm Film Roll Film Scanning and Microfilm Scanning Services

Many salespeople in other industries aren't that familiar with the the niche industry of microfilm, microfilm scanning, and digital imaging. Some sales representatives believe that microfilm conversion is the same as paper document scanning, that there are no small details about digital imaging, or that all microfilm scanning services and microfilm scanning companies are the same.

Here are some questions salespeople should be asking or attempt to identify when dealing with a company, organization, government, or municipality that has 16mm roll film:

1) Is the film original, silver halide, a diazo duplicate, or vesicular? Obviously originals or silver film creates a better copy than duplicated microfilm.

2) Does the 16mm film have blips? These are counters that generally group frames by document and page, for example a big blip indicates the start of a new student record, and is followed by the pages of that folder with small blips.

3) Does your potential client have an existing electronic data management system or are you trying to sell your own? This is important when it comes to the imaging file format: does the software have any limitations or requirements concerning bi-tonal vs gray scale compression, CSV format, XML format, TIFF, PDF, or JPEG?

4) Do the images need to be indexed via data entry, OCR (or ICR), blip folder, or sequential digital number? Does the data need to be in the image filename or exported into a comma delimited text file, Excel spreadsheet, or XML file.

5) Do the images need to be scanned at 200DPI, 300DPI, or something else? If not, 200DPI is standard for roll film jobs.

6) Can the organization use CD's, DVD's,  FTP, or USB external hard drives? You'd be surprised how many places don't know how to transfer digital images via output media.

7) What is the turnaround time and expected completion date for this microfilm scanning service?

Answers to these questions would greatly enhance the chance of you pricing the microfilm scanning project the right way. Scanning Depot can assist you in microfilm scanning prices and roll film quotes for many different types of microfilm scanning services.

Transfer Microfilm to TIFF or PDF

Types of microfilm are various. There is 16mm roll film, 35mm roll film, which both can be positive film or negative film; duplex, simplex, duo, 16mm continuous form COM reels, and duplicate microfilm.

If you want to digitize microfilm, you must be aware that scanning microfilm technology includes operating microfilm scanners such as NextStar, Sunrise, Mekel, Wicks and Wilson, Cannon, or other name brands.

You can't just scan microfilm records into your computer without these microfilm scanners, and without having the expertise and training to run them. Digitizing microfilm is a highly specialized field. When you factor the time and cost of training and labor (not to mention mistakes and rescans) it is best to leave microfilm scanning to experts. After all, it is a lot less expensive to just send your microfilm to Scanning Depot than to buy one $65,000 microfilm scanner and hire or train new employees.

The cost of a microfilm digital conversion is much less than you would expect. Scanning Depot also will scan one roll of film for hobbyists or researchers, something many other microfilm scanning companies will pass up.

The question of: is it better to convert microfilm to TIFF or convert microfilm to PDF all depends on your needs. TIFFs are much easier to work with an modify and do not require Adobe Acrobat or similar PDF viewing program. Either way is no problem for Scanning Depot.

El proseso de conversión

Un obstáculo que muchas organizaciones encuentran es que no se sienten confortables con enviar sus documentos a un lugar fuera de su establecimiento, para el proseso de conversión. Scanning Depot ha encontrado soluciones a este tipo de problema para muchos de sus clientes. Por ejemplo, en un caso, el cliente necesitaba poder continuar teniendo acceso a sus documentos, mientras Scanning Depot convertía las microfichas. Scanning Depot le dio acceso al cliente a todos sus documentos, a través del Internet. El cliente pudo mantener su función normal y a la vez, pudo digitalizar millones de documentos.

Scanning Depot es la empresa pionera en el procesamiento y digitalización de microfichas y se ha convertido en el líder mundial, en especial en la lectura y digitalización de rollos y microfichas. Sus oficinas principales se encuentran estratégicamente localizadas en el sur de Florida, cerca de Miami, Hollywood, el puerto de enlace para América Latina y el Caribe.

Microfilm y microfichas

Para comenzar el proceso de conversión, usted necesita conocer ciertos detalles acerca del proceso y de su película. Por ejemplo, que tipo de película usted tiene. Hay varios tipos de microfichas como microfichas COM, microfichas jackets, y microfichas step and repeat, película de 16mm o película de 35mm. Cual es la reducción de los documentos que se utilizo al crear el microfilm. Hay muchos otros detalles adicionales que también son necesario. Todo esto es importante par una conversión de documento exitosa, y solo un profesional en este giro le podrá ofrecer las mejores soluciones.