At Calgary Archives, we can virtually scan any type of book, magazine, newsletter, or newspaper. We convert fragile archival bound material with meticulous professional handling to maintain the integrity of your material. Some of the features for bound material scanning include the following:
- High resolution scanning up to 600 dpi
- We use special purpose book cradles to avoid harming book spines
- Capabilities include small and large books, newspapers, and magazines
- Our clean-up processes remove the curvature of book pages so the text will not be warped
- We can scan bound books up to 26″ wide when opened and 23″ tall.
Calgary Archives is happy to provide, free of charge, a sample scanned from your book, magazine or newspaper so you can see for your self the benefits of using Calgary Archives as your book & bound format scanning bureau.
All images scanned by Calgary Archives are processed for Despeckling, Deskewing, Proper Rotation, and file size optimization.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Optical Character Recognition is the process of automatic recognition and interpretation of text from different types of documents including scanned paper documents, newspapers, magazines or PDF files into editable and searchable data. Calgary Archives offers a number of solutions for extracting text from different types of documents.
Deliverable Media
All digital content scanned by Calgary Imaging can be delivered on a variety of media. The following are some of the media of choice by our current clients:
- CDs (Compact Disc)
- DVDs (Digital Video Disc)
- Portable Hard Drives
- USB Flash Drives
- Downloadable FTP site
If there is another format that you would like your digital content delivered on please contact us.
Definitions
Despeckle : An image processing (clean-up) operation that removes random specks, called flyspecks or pepper, from an image to improve legibility, OCR accuracy and to improve compression.
Deskew : To straighten out a crooked image. Improves OCR accuracy and reduces image file size.
