Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services | Multi Award-Winning Specialists
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Our multi-award winning digitisation and archiving services support clients with a comprehensive solution designed to digitise, archive, and ensure invaluable assets are handled with absolute care using a 'white glove' approach. Our state-of-the-art scanning and digital preservation techniques ensure every detail, from faint ink on fragile parchment and manuscripts to rich patterns on textiles are captured and preserved to The National Archive Standards.
- Photographic Film Types
- Broadcast AV Tape Digitisation
- Document & Parchment
Our services provide clients with state of the art digitisation machinery, expertly converting document media including reports, minutes, diaries, publications, rare parchment, linen and cotton maps, photographs archives and photographic film types to historical books, audio tapes, video tapes and motion film and cine to educational institutions, heritage associations, corporate clients and publication for both private and commercial, creating bespoke online heritage archives
No order is too small or large. Our services support clients from 1 VHS tape to 1000's of historical archives. Clients include The Royal Society, Blenheim Palace, Oxford University, NHS Trust, Sobell House, Central Government, Local Government to include NDA clients whereby we digitise for famous and historically important events that have happened in the UK.
- Document and Manuscript Digitisation
- Books, Diaries, Newspapers, Deeds
- Microfilm, Slides, Negative and glass plates
- Video, Magnetic Tape, Motion Film and Rare Formats
- Photographs and Ephemera
- To National Archive and Preservation Standard
Bound Volumes | Fragile Historical Documents | Newspapers | Registrars and Ledgers | Laboratory Books | Diary and Magazines | Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks | Photographs | Parchment and Manuscripts | Personnel Records and Reports | Published Books | Index Cards | Bulk Loose Documents | Oversized Maps | Engineering Plans | Artwork | Archive Collections
Digital output include Archival 10-Bit, Pro-Res, MPEG4 Asset Files, WAV, MP3 Asset Files, TIFF/RAW, JPEG Asset Files, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.
Our Heritage Digitisation Services
Document and Manuscript Digitisation
Our specialist document and manuscript digitisation service digitises historical documents into National Archive Standard digital formats. Perfect for the preservation of parchments, registers, manuscripts, letters, and archival papers, easily making them accessible for online viewing.
Books, Diaries, Newspapers, Property Deeds
Our flatbed scanning machinery can carefully digitise fragile books, printed documents, war diaries, old newspapers, parchment curled or straight and deed packs. Media is carefully relaxed and digitised to produce an exact digital replica of the image. Using National Archive Standards, you can trust our expertise in preparing the highest quality digital outputs required for future preservation.
Microfilms, Slides, Negatives, and Glass-Plates
Our award-winning photographic film digitisation process for all film types including medium format, transparencies, 35mm, aperture cards, microfilms, glass plates and specialist film types is always an extemely popular department. Our archive technicians use specialist scanners capable of digitising imagery in the highest quality RAW or TIFF outputs.
Photographs and Ephemera
With fragile soft handling bulk digtiisation machinery, we can digitise fragile photographs and ephemera with ease, allowing efficient and careful preservation of historical media.