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

Types of Microfilm Scanning Services

Microfilm scanning services have many components and options. In addition to straight 16mm and 35mm roll film conversions, microfilm scanning services also include:

Quality control. Generation Imaging practices four phases of quality control: at the scanner operator level, a post-scanning audit, an intense quality control, and a final media check.

Indexing. The sky is the limit when it comes to naming images at Generation Imaging. Using proprietary software designed by Dan Gandul and Damian Hospital, and coded by a programmer who has over 10 years experience in the micrographics industry, your images can be outputted in any format. From breaking rolls by start pages or data entry by names, SSN, drawing numbers, dates, or account numbers, anything is possible. G.I.’s indexing program has multiple modules, including a QC program, which enables the modification of individual images.

OCR (Object Character Recognition). Using propriety OCR software, Generation Imaging can create OCR searchable PDFs, text files, or spreadsheets with the extracted data. Recommended settings: 300 DPI for typed text.

Image processing. From autocropping to duplex image splitting to quality enhancements to changing file formats, a microfilm scanning services company must offer all in one solutions.

Output. CD, DVD, USB stick, USB external drive, FTP, or filesharing are all possibilities.

If you require microfilm scanning services of any kind, please contact Generation Imaging for an estimate. Information needed: how many reels, their type, how many frames are on a reel on the average, file format, naming, and any optional processes. It’s okay if you don’t have detailed preferences:  Generation Imaging can help you decide which microfilm scanning services are best for you.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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Your Microfilm Scanning Company Is Available Today

This is the best time of the year to scan your microfilm. Generation Imaging is the scanning company that provides microfilm scanning services at reduced prices. There are times during the year when we get super busy and our scanning resources are at capacity. If you have been planning to convert you microfilm to digital, our scanning company can make room for your scanning project before the year ends. Our scanning company works around the clock to meet all of our customers needs and we have completed many of our projects. This is an opportunity for you to schedule your microfilm conversion with our scanning company.

The production manager at our scanning company has about a dozen projects penciled in but no real commitment to start as of now. This can change at a moments time and as always, there is no way to tell what tomorrow will bring. My recommendation is to call and reserve your spot as soon as you can. Topically, our scanning company will get busy near the end of the year. This is due to budgetary reasons]  and customers wanting to use the funding that was allocated for the project within the fiscal year. Our scanning company anticipates this process to start soon.

Our scanning company will guarantee you a priority spot in the production line if you notify us. Our goal is to keep our commitments to you. Therefore, we will not over-commit.  First come works well for our scanning company and makes it fair to our customers also. We do understand that last minute needs are part of the system. Our scanning company has the capacity to adjust to some degree, to meet your last minute need, but is best to schedule with time.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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Microfilm Conversion

A microfilm conversion is another term for microfilm scanning, roll film scanning, and microfilm digitizing. Using a roll film scanner, 16mm or 35mm roll film is transferred from analog to digital. The scanner must be set up to blow the small frame back up to its original document size. Therefore the scanner operator must know the reduction ratio (similar to aspect ratio). Some scanners have auto-detect reduction ratio parameters, but nothing beats the careful supervision and instincts of an experienced scanner operator.

The other factors that a scanner operator must consider with a roll film conversion are frame detection parameters, quality settings, and output naming conventions. Each element requires a combination of technical skill, experience, and creativity. If the detection settings are not properly configured, the microfilm conversion would result in missing images and cut-off images. If the quality settings are not carefully created, the resulting images may be blurry, out of focus, too dark, too light, plugged, or improperly sized. Finally, incorrect scanner output naming settings will ruin the final product by misnaming the files, putting them out of order, or not meeting the client’s specification.

Generation Imaging has the experience, latest technology, and talent to perform any microfilm conversion project that comes our way. No microfilm conversion is too big or too small for us to process. The employees at Generation Imaging have performed thousands of microfilm conversion jobs over the decades, and know the correct way to set up and monitor the scanners. Contact us today for your microfilm conversion quote.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Records Scanning To Transfer Aperture Cards

Aperture cards that have been used to store drawing and building plans for years, can be transfer to digital. Records scanning is a process to transfer information from microfilm to digital format. Records scanning from aperture cards will transfer the drawing to pdf, jpeg, or tiff images. Records scanning is ideal for aperture cards for a number of reasons, and many organizations have already taken advantage of records scanning companies to convert their aperture cards to a more functional format.

Ideally you would find a reputable company that has experts with years of experience in the records scanning industry. To make sure that your aperture cards will be transferred to digital in a fast and safe way. Here are some advantages of records scanning you can look forward to: Your drawings will be stored in a disc or hard drive, making the new images easier to view. You won’t need a clumsy viewer anymore. You will be able to apply up to date technology to the new files, such as file sharing, file printing, and you can send or use the files over the internet.

To find a good records scanning company, look for a microfilm scanning vendor with experience and one that is equipped with high quality equipment. These are two critical issues for records scanning to be successful.  Records scanning depends on specialized equipment and experienced operators to achieve good records scanning results. Your drawings images should retain the information from the original drawings to be of value to you and this requires great care.

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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

Government Agencies Digitize Negatives

According to a news release, the department of interior is looking to Digitize Negatives from microfiche. The article states that the department wants to digitize negatives using an automated method that combines multiple processes including deskew, inverting and quality adjustments. To digitize negatives from microfilm rolls or microfiche cards, they are looking to rent a microfilm scanner and develop a training system during the ramp up time.

This seems like a good approach and a safe solution to digitize negatives with important data. However, another solution to digitize negatives safely is to find a vendor that has a proven records of successfully achieving excellent results for many years. We have digitize negatives for many different firms across the nation and our success rate is unparalleled. When we digitize negatives, we use the best scanning equipment and apply over 20 years of experience.

Our goal is to digitize negatives and to process the images so that the end result meets or exceeds expectations. Many of our customers digitize negatives with other vendors and often find that they do not get the quality they need. When we digitize negatives for them, they compare the two and become excited with the results. It is very satisfying when a customer replies just to let you know how greatfull they are when we digitize negatives for them.Copyright G.I. Partners, LLC

Florida Microfilm Scanning and Roll Film Conversion

Generation Imaging is your one stop Florida microfilm scanning solution, as we are able to handle all types of roll film conversions. Our Florida microfilm scanning services include 16mm roll film conversion, 35mm roll film digitization, converting negative roll film to positive, digitizing diazo dupes, converting duplex film (split or unsplit images), digitizing duo film to digital images, converting continuous roll film, and other types.

In addition to the Florida microfilm scanning, Generation Imaging performs such image processing like OCR (searchable PDF, CSV, TXT, XLS, etc), output file formats such as TIFF, PDF, JPG, bi-tonal (black and white), greyscale (uncompressed or compressed, and image indexing services.

Images that have been created by our Florida microfilm scanning process can be indexed at the image level, grouped by folders, multi-page files, and/or with a load file. Generation Images can name files however you want.

Our Florida microfilm scanning image delivery options include external hard drives, usb sticks, CDs, DVDs, FTP, or a filesharing site.

Generation Imaging does not mark up prices: we are direct wholesale service providers. Our pricing is low so that if you’d like to become a Florida microfilm scanning reseller, please let us know. We can assist you with tips, pointers, and questions and answers so you can get roll film projects from your network and sources and add your commission to it.

Reselling our services is an easy way to generate revenue for your company or yourself. It is the same concept of being an affiliate or partner, except you do not have identify us as the provider (it’s up to you to use your own name/company or to have your client go directly to us).

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