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London organisations digitising Microfiche and microfilm
Date: 21/04/2010
It seems the country’s capital city organisations are finally getting round to digitising the archived microfilms and microfiche records which they have been storing for a number decades in most cases.
Recently the scanning industry and in particular Pearl Scan Solutions has noticed a sharp increase in the number of enquiries for the scanning of microfilm reels and microfiche slides which usually contain historical company documents that were converted into this film format which was a popular storage method 20-30 years ago.
Whether it is related to the government’s recent clamp down on data security and records management could be a strong possibility especially as it is always heard the loudest in the surrounding districts of parliament. Also the number of businesses that have been losing hard copy data in small disasters or from general wear and tear over the past few years seems to be ominously growing.
In most cases the offices looking to carry this out will have cabinets full of films or fiche slides and will need them digitised to a PDF format so they can search through the records over their network. As most offices are aware of the time and inconvenience involved in retrieving a record from amongst these they are also realising the exercise as a return on investment.
Having dealt with projects ranging from the scanning and digitising of a couple of microfiche/microfilms through to hundreds of thousands of these records there is a lot of experience present when carrying out this digitising service. With the main office in Manchester and another office just outside London, Pearl Scan is therefore a geographical convenience for those searching in and around the London area for microfiche scanning, microfilm scanning and aperture card scanning.
Hopefully many more companies realise the benefits and start to look after their data electronically for the long term in the safest way possible.
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