At Calgary Archives, our microfilm / microfiche scanner uses superior camera technology to produce sharper scanned images with better edge definition. Our microfilm / microfiche scanner uses fibre optics as its light source, therefore eliminating hot spots and uneven edges produced by most microfilm / microfiche scanners.
- Digital conversion of microfilm / microfiche eliminates the intensive manual nature of film retrieval, and can reduce retrieval times to mere seconds.
- Save space and staff dedicated to managing the storage and retrieval of microfilm and microfiche
- Scanning resolutions can range from 100 dpi up to 600 dpi
- Scan microfiche up to 105mm
- Scan 16mm or 35mm roll film
- Scan positive or negative film images
- Ribbon scanning
- Well Logs – scan and stitch when required
- Top of the line software dedicated to microfilm and microfiche scanning
- 7x – 52x reduction ratio
- Custom indexing, book marking, and file naming is available upon request
Calgary Archives is happy to provide, free of charge, a sample scanned from your microfilm or microfiche so you can see for your self the benefits of using Calgary Archives as your microfilm / microfiche 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.
