Microfilm Scanning Services

Microfilm scanning services- Generation Imaging is microfilm scanning company run by the best microfilm scanner operators and managers in the United States. No microfilm or microfiche scanning job is too big or too small.

With a staff with over 25 years of micrographic experience, Generation Imaging is the microfilm scanning company with super prices for microfilm scanning, microfiche digitizing, and aperture card conversion companies. G.I.’s  core workers have been providing digital microfilm conversions and image indexing services for government agencies, microfilm service bureaus, large corporations, small businesses, and other organizations since the 1980′s.

As the experts in film-to-digital conversions, the founders of Generation Imaging have a proven track record, testimonials, and experience from hundreds of the world’s largest and most notable organizations who subcontract microfilm scanning or need in-house digital conversions. The staff has completed numerous complex and detailed microfilm scanning projects, totaling well over one billion images. This microfilm scanning company stands ready to give you a microfilm scanning price quote, and would be ready to begin conversion immediately.

Using the best microfiche scanners, microfilm scanners, and aperture card scanners and proprietary indexing , QC, and image processing software, our digital imaging processes include microfilm scanning services, microfiche scanning, aperture card conversion, document imaging, OCR, autocrop, manual crop, deskew, TIFF to PDF, multi-tiff, multi-pdf, CSV files, txt files, duplex image splitting, fully-customizable imaging processes, and much more..

This microfilm scanning company can scan all types of microform, like 16mm roll film, 35mm roll film, 16mm 3m or Kodak cartridges, 16mm COM film, duplex film, aperture cards, source document jacketed fiche, 35mm fiche, hollerith punch cards, different aperture card drawing sizes, and other media. This microfilm scanning company offers image-to-film and document scanning services.

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What is the cost of microfilm scanning or microfiche scanning?

It depends on volume and type (COM fiche, jacketed microfiche, step-and-repeat fiche, rewritable microfiche,16mm roll film, 35mm roll film, aperture cards, color slides, indexing specs). But rest assured due to a low overhead, This scanning company offers the lowest microfilm scanning prices in the industry.

You’ve come to the right place if you are interested in:

• Microfilm scanning
• Microfiche scanning
• Aperture card scanning
• Document scanning
• Convert fiche to PDF
• Digitize microfiche
• Digitize roll film
• Roll film to TIFF
• Convert microfilm to digital images
• Convert roll film to JPEG
• Cost for microfilm scanning
• Convert health records
• Digitize school records
• Scan documents
• Microfilm scanner
• Microfiche scanner
• Aperture card scanner
• digitalizacion de microfilm
• Digitize 35mm roll film
• Convert 16mm roll film to image
• COM fiche scanning
• microfilm y microfichas
• Microfiche to PDF
• Transfer microfiche to image
• Florida microfilm scanning company

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Happy 2012 From Generation Imaging

The staff at Generation Imaging in Davie, Florida wants to wish you a Happy New Year for 2012. Initial surveys are showing that more people are  hopeful this year than 2008-2011, so let’s hope that translates into happiness and more work for everyone. It’s been survival mode for the majority of people in the world.

Generation Imaging thankfully did well in 2011. It could be due to co-founder Dan Gandul constant praying. The upstart Florida microfilm scanning company has posted increased revenues and profits every year since it has started thanks to excellent pricing, no corporate waste, and quality work.

Generation Imaging would like to thank all of its clients for using its microfilm, microfiche, aperture card, color slides, and document scanning services, in addition to 16mm archive writing services. Generation Imaging realizes that the client is always right, that prices need to be low in this current economy, that deadlines need to be met, and that if you are a reseller confidentiality will be respected.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Archival Services For All Your Archival Needs

During the last 3 weeks, I have received  calls from people looking for archival services and they all shared the same concern. They all said, in one way or another, that archival services are becoming harder to find. They also seemed very happy to have found us. Once we discussed the wide range of options, it seemed that they had something special to celebrate. At least they knew they had found a place where they felt they could trust to get their archival services and many other microfilm scanning, microfilming, and document scanning as well. All in one location. Archival services refers to the transferring of digital images to microfilm. In years past, this was a very common and usual process for many organizations. They used archival services for storing large amounts of information on microfilm. Since many of these firms have found a new home for their information on digital devices. Archival services is now used in a more limited ways. As a consequence, many archival services are no longer offered by many companies that use to. Eventually, these services are going to be a thing of the past for many more organizations, but for those who still need these services, we are glad to be able to help. If you need archival services, scanning services, or microfilming services, I recommend that you try to find a qualified service provider. Archival services are not as easy to find anymore but the efforts in finding the right place will pay off. You can visit us to more details about all the alternatives available for you today.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

35mm and 16mm Microfilm Scanning Services

Generation Imaging’s microfilm scanning services utilize the NextScan equipment – which is known as the very best roll film conversion devices on the planet. NextScan, and American company, was founded by former Sunrise Imaging employees and created innovative ribbon scanning software. This procedure ensures that a 16mm or 35mm roll of film is scanned in its complete form (including all of the spaces between frames).

Microfilm scanning services includes quality assurance. The quality control audit is carried out by a human operator. Compare this method to non-ribbon scanning, and you can see that non-ribbon scanning results in nightmare situations of skipped frames and cut-offs.

35mm microfilm scanning services: 35mm rolls usually contain blueprints, newspapers, architectural drawings, and engineering diagrams, although any time of document can be found on a 35mm roll. For example, 35mm reels are used for archiving historic documents and some deed records.

16mm microfilm scanning services.  16mm rolls can be in lengths of 100 feet or less or varieties that are double that length. Generally speaking, 16mm is width used for standard office-sized 8.5 x 11 inches (aka A4 documents).  16mm roll film can also contain checks, pay stubs, time cards, and driver’s licenses. Obviously, these frames are small, especially with duplex and duo 16mm rolls.  Spools of 16mm roll film can be enclosed in cartridges or in cardboard or metal boxes.

Please contact Generation Imaging for a microfilm scanning services price quote or for more information about the company. Daniel Gandul and Damian Hospital stand ready to assist you with your roll film project, no matter what the size is.

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A Microfiche Machine That Creates Digital Files

A microfiche machine can be described as a tool to view information from microfiche cards. One type of microfiche machine works by means of projection. In fact a microfiche viewer does exactly that. You place one microfiche cards under a glass, and a light bulb helps project the information to a screen in from of the microfiche machine. This magnified projection is large enough for you to be able to read the information.

Another type of microfiche machine called a microfiche scanner, will also work towards making the information readable, but instead of a projection process, this microfiche machine works by scanning the microfiche card and creating a digital image of each document in the microfiche card.

There are many advantages for using this scanning microfiche machine. For example, if you have the images digitized with the scanning microfiche machine and store the images on your computer, then you can view the information as many times as you want without having to touch the microfiche cards again. Images created with this microfiche machine can be sent a picture files, over the internet and can also be shared over a network.

Many organizations that store their data in microfiche cards, are required to use viewing microfiche machines and spend lots of time and effort maintaining and protecting the microfiche inventory, as well as  trying to keep them from getting scratched or lost. A microfiche machine that digitizes the microfiche cards work wonders in solving all of these problem.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Information About Slide Scanning

Slide scanning is a term that describes the digitization of small slides to images. Although Generation Imaging’s core business is powered by microfilm scanning and microfiche scanning, we also do offer slide scanning services. So if you have done business with us you can trust us to take care of any color slide projects you may come across.

We can create high quality JPEGs, PDFs, TIFFs, or PNGs and name the images however you’d like.

Why use Generation Imaging instead of buying slide scanners on your own? Slide scanning is a very labor intensive process, and more than likely you will not be needing the slide scanners after your project has completed. The employees at Generation Imaging has tackled many slide scanning jobs over these last few decades, thus we can identify and overcome issues quickly.

In addition to slide digitizing, Generation Imaging can also convert your film negatives and photographs. If you simply don’t have the time or equipment to digitize slides, negatives, or photos, you may want to consider getting professional slide scanning services from Generation Imaging.

All photos and slides can be full color or greyscale. Why scan slides or photos? It’s a great way to preserve and archive media. You can put the images online and share them. You can easily copy and print them.

Many slides can contain vacation trips, magazine covers, sports photos, and almost anything that could have been captured using a camera.

Contact Generation Imaging for your slide scanning price quote today.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Scanning Company Saves Microfilm Records

Libraries do book sales all the time. These sales are not always limited to books though. They can include other stuff such as microfilm. If you are interested in information that is on microfilm but don’t know how to use it, this information can help you. A microfilm scanning company can take the microfilm and scan it for you. The scanning company needs to be equipped with microfilm scanning equipment and you need to get the microfilm to them. Our scanning company, for example, can transfer microfilm to digital images in one day.

When you get your microfilm, make sure you don’t scratch it. The information on the microfilm can come off if you don’t handle it with care. The scanning company knows how to handle the microfilm to protect the information. Once scanned, the scanning company will return the microfilm and a CD with the images. You can copy them to your computer where you can view them like any other picture. For  more information about what a scanning company can do for you, visit our information site.

Another option some people take is to check the microfilm from the library and send it to a reputable scanning company. If the microfilm you need is not for sale and the library is able to release it to you, you can send it to our scanning company and we will digitize the microfilm in time for you to return it. If you have some special requirements, call a rep. at our scanning company for free information.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

16mm Microfilm Conversion Pricing

The cost of getting a 16mm microfilm conversion project has decreased since the 1990s, due to faster scanner technology and increased competition. However the price of buying a 16mm roll film scanner has not decreased, so organizations still looking for a microfilm conversion solution prefer scanning service bureaus.

Why? Well, undertaking a microfilm conversion project involves buying heavy duty equipment, paying for maintenance, hiring or training labor, learning everything from scratch, creating new space in your office or getting a new office, and creating a new production workflow. In other words, a microfilm conversion is not something that an organization could just jump into by itself, and an organization must be understand what goes into one.

The most efficient way is to outsource the microfilm conversion to a scanning bureau like Generation Imaging, because it is hands-off, and the microfilm conversion price is not expensive.

Information about 16mm Roll Film

-16mm roll film has no enforceable standards in terms of how many images are contained on it. They are usually around 200 feet or 100 feet. On the average a 16mm roll film contains about 2,000 frames, although they can hold anywhere from just 1 image to over 20,000 duplex images.

- The nature of 16mm is more versatile than 35m roll film. 16mm can be duplex (two frames in one), duo, barcodes, and blipped. Duo roll film uses both sides of the film to contain more images, starting at one side and wrapping around at the end of the film and working its way back to the beginning, like a snake. Blips are small markers that group frames by document start pages. Barcodes contain computer data, and are used like advanced blips.

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Aperture Card Scanning Company

Generation Imaging is an aperture card scanning company. The aperture card scanning process is similar to but not exactly the same as microfilm scanning, microfiche scanning, document scanning, and slide scanning. It is similar because the process converts analog media to a digital image. In the case of apertures,  generally speaking they contain one 35mm film strip. In fact, some people call the process 35mm microfilm aperture card scanning.

Usually apertures contain a rectangular slot with a 35mm drawing pasted in it. These 35m frames are usually maps, blueprints, engineering drawings, and technical schematics. However, there are also cases where there are 16mm strips or 35mm strip which contain deed records or other types of 8.5 x 11 or 8.5 x 14 documents.

In other words, aperture card scanning involved the digitization of A-size, B-Size, C-Size, D-Size, and E-size documents, with some variations and subtypes in-between those standard sizes. There are cases where there are multiple 16mm frames in the rectangular window. These can be digitized all in one image, or manually separated into individual images. Many apertures have a Hollerith code (computer punches). The Hollerith code contains data, which usually correlates to the information on the aperture headers.

Aperture card scanning can result in PDF, TIFF, or JPEG images. Generation Imaging can create black & white images or greyscale versions. Images can be single pages (one frame = one image) or multi-page (PDF or TIFF) grouped by drawing number. Databases or spreadsheets can be linked to each image with their drawing or Hollerith information. Filenames can be named based on the Hollerith code or indexed by header or image.

Please contact Generation Imaging today for an aperture card scanning price quote.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Records Scanning Helps Preserve History

Records scanning comes to the rescue of valuable historical information. In the event a library is affected or threatened with any king of environmental hazard, records scanning would be the best defense system. Records scanning will take any record stored on microfilm and convert them to digital images. Records scanning has the advantage of facilitating an inexpensive backup system for protection against damage.

Historians all around the world find that our records scanning system is ideal for preserving the microfilm records with valuable information. We often perform records scanning and create jpeg or pdf files for them. The end result of records scanning is a really happy customer. Consider the fact that the main use of microfilm is to store and often also retrieve information. This is what historians do also since they are researching old microfilm. Records scanning makes it possible for them to store the information on their computer and perform easier and faster searches.

Records scanning gets thumbs up from from our customers. Once a customers evaluates the gains from a records scanning system and compares them to a microfilm system, they find it easy to justify performing records scanning to all of their records from microfilm. It is quite a pleasure to serve our customers in this business of records scanning. Our advance microfilm scanning equipment is ideal for converting microfilm to digital images. And when records scanning is the process of choice, our equipment is the best in the market to take care of it.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Misconceptions about Computer Output Microfilm

Computer Output Microfilm is created via a laser process which transfers data to roll film or microfiche. Large corporations, government agencies, and organizations use it for archival purposes as well as looking up records to service clients or for internal uses. Here are some facts about Computer Output Microfilm to clear up some misconceptions.

1. Yes, Computer Output Microfilm is called COM, which is also used to designate COM microfiche  (“COM fiche”). In reality, if the machine creates roll film, it should be called Computer Output Microfilm, and if it creates microfiche it should be called Computer Output Microfiche, but very few people make this distinction. Technically, the term Computer Output Microform would be all encompassing, but no one uses it. Obviously, to say COM roll or COM fiche is a misnomer, but that’s the lngo of the micrographics industry (even “micrographics” is not in many dictionaries).
2. Not all COM is straight, fixed, or perfect- even though it is computer data. The reason? Duplicates or machine errors. Don’t believe the hype; human and machine error can cause improperly aligned COM fiche and COM rolls. In cases like that, digitizing the COM because problematic. If proper quality control methods are applied on the front end, the final stage of converting COM to digital image is a smooth process. Otherwise expect a COM image that has overscan (which could be manually cropped.)
3. Computer Output Microfilm is NOT just like other types of 16mm roll film, and requires and entirely different scanning setup and process.  You can read all about how to scan Computer Output Microfilm by following that link.

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