Publication, Personal and Archive Book Scanning
- Non-Destructive and Destructive Scanning Methods
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Technology
- Text Searchable PDF Formats
Our professional book scanning services support business, heritage and consumer clients with all aspects of digitising book collections for preservation or online use. We use high-quality BookEye scanning technology that can support books upto A1 in size. Our services are award winning, and with a professional team of archive technicians, books are carefully digitised before outputing to clients specifications.
Offering a range of options to meet your needs, from small collections or a large library. We can digitise books upto A1 size with all types of bindings, from fragile books, hardcovers and paperbacks.
- Digital output formats include Archival TIFF, PDF, PDF/A, PDF/OCR searchable, Word
- 'White Glove' approach for scanning old, fragile and heritage books
Book scanning can be prepared in 2 ways. Non-destructive, whereby we digitise each page by hand. Options include Archival TIFF, JPEG and PDF. Or Destructive book scanning, whereby the spines are guillotined and the pages processed through our batch scanners. Digital images are scanned at a minimum 300 dpi in PDF or TIFF format with options upto 600dpi. Documents are scanned greyscale and colour using sharpening and colour correction techniques to match the original item at time of scanning.
