Digitisation Services

BOPCRIS Digitisation Service based at the Hartley Library, University of Southampton specialises in the production of digital page images from bound books. Specialist book scanners and a conservation environment enables fragile pages to be captured in their bindings. Images are captured in full colour or grey scale at variety of resolutions and a number of output formats are offered. Printed texts can be converted to machine readable formats with markup. Supporting bibliographic data can be extracted and exported as MODS with associated metadata including METS, MIX and PREMIS.

Capita Total Document Solutions has thirty years' experience in providing imaging services to the archive, preservation, education and library community via both microfilm and digital technologies. We have extensive knowledge and experience in handling fragile and historic material. Our specialist, state of the art equipment and quality assured processes enable us to work with a variety of delicate and fragile maps, books and other documents found in archives and museums. We offer fast and accurate microfilm and microfiche conversion and imaging, which conform to Mellon guidelines for archival permanence. With regard to digital solutions we have the latest flatbed book scanners, digital scanners and microfilm digitisers to ensure the production of high quality images.

Digital Capture Solutions (DCS) developed from the digital library for Birmingham City University. We expanded into the market place in 2001 after a surge in demand to use our digitisation services. DCS can help in preserving heritage by offering a specialised service, producing the highest quality digital versions possible of original (analogue) formats. Our unique large format Zeutschel overhead scanners for bound and unbound material can scan to the highest resolution available (400dpi at A0). Clients include libraries, archives and record offices, art galleries and museums, learned societies, and private companies. We handle all original material to current NPO standards and are centrally located in Birmingham.

The FSB are part of Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies Service based in Cambridge. We have been specialising in the digital imaging of historical documents, glass slides, negatives, museum objects and archaeological finds for seven years. Our small team offer a friendly, personal service for small digitisation projects. Any items we accept for scanning are stored in Cambridgeshire Archives' own strongrooms. Cambridgeshire Archives is accredited by the National Archives as a repository for holding public records

Heron has been providing cost-effective digitisation and copyright clearance services to the HE and FE communities for almost ten years. Heron also provides software services for those who do their own scanning.

IImage Retrieval has all the expertise, skill and professionalism required for all your company’s document management needs. Our in-house bureau specialises in the preservation scanning of books, maps, x-rays, negatives, photos and paper scanning using Kofax Accent and VRS producing high quality images. We have also invested heavily in microfilm digitising equipment making us one of the largest digitisation bureaus in the UK with 10 microfilm scanners. IIRI have developed their own web based document management viewer, available as a managed web server, supplied as a boxed or bespoke product.

With over a decade spent managing large and small digitisation, web and image management projects in the heritage sector, IDP has unrivalled expertise and experience. Our team of ten practising professionals frequently give advice to individuals and institutions worldwide and have worked as consultants, digitisers, image management and website designers on several external projects. We have trained staff in UK and worldwide, worked on-site and off-site and consistently produced excellent quality images to schedule and within budget. You will not find a service with more experience or specialised expertise in the heritage sector.

Max Communications Ltd has established itself as the leading provider of digital image solutions to the educational and cultural sectors. We specialise in high quality digitisation services and place an overriding emphasis on developing long-term relationships with clients, based on our product quality and friendly professional service. We are uniquely placed to assist with digitisation projects due to the experience gained from working with other leading institutions faced with the same challenges and opportunities. Along with free no obligation sample tests, we offer highly competitive pricing and no quibble guarantees.

MicroFormat is one of the UK's largest and oldest document conversion specialists, with over thirty-five years' experience of supplying archive preservation, document management and indexing services. Our bureau is based in Rochester, Kent, providing quality service to UK and international customers We offer a complete document scanning, microfilming and indexing service. We also offer microfilm scanning and microfiche scanning for those who require digital imaging from existing records. Our core expertise is in document handling, and we have been of service to HE/FE and the cultural heritage sector for many years. MicroFormat is part of the MicroFormat Group bv, Netherlands.

As one of the principal Scottish providers of archive digitisation, we have considerable experience of scanning and handling sensitive archive material. We have worked on large on and off site digitisation projects and have provided ongoing digitisation of collections in museums and archives. We can assist with both public and private image collections throughout the UK.

Relic Imaging offers high-end digital archival photography to museums, galleries and other organisations in the cultural heritage sector. We specialise in high quality production whether you have 10 or 10, 000 objects. We can digitise your collection including 3d objects, framed artwork, jewellery, prints & drawings, glass plates, manuscripts, textiles or illustrations from delicate and rare volumes. A professional and friendly approach, along with careful handling and consideration for delicate items, provides our clients with a quality service time and again.

Scriptura provides a comprehensive range of high quality digitisation services to meet the needs of research libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organisations. Particular emphasis is placed on the safe handling and protection of fragile originals. Scriptura employs appropriate methods and equipment to produce archive quality digital photographic masters. Scriptura was founded following seven years of work on major academic research projects that, in collaboration with conservators and custodians, pioneered an approach to the digitisation of early manuscripts from special collections housed within the University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, and the National Library of Ireland.

We have been involved in 'high-end' image reproduction for many years and supply specialsit services in digital imaging solutions from our modern premises in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire to the archival, academic, commercial and scientific sectors. Unlike most archiving and document scanning services, our organisation has its roots in the pre-press and printing sectors. Consequently, our high-resolution scanners (Heidelberg S3900 Drum Scanner and Linotype-Hell Topaz Flatbed Scanner) are acknowledged to be among the finest in the industry, specifically designed to deliver outstanding definition and image quality. Together with our skills and experience, we are able to meet the most exacting standards in reproduction, and create precise facsimilies of source material.

Our flat-bed systems are unique. Our office based equipment can digitise items up to 1.5 × A0 in one single pass and our portable systems can digitise items up to A1 size. We are very experienced in dealing with old, large and fragile items as well as smaller items such as books, film and slides. Our expertise extends to software and web development, creating public search engines and allowing payments to be taken online. Please take a look at www.townswebarchiving.com where you will see that we have worked with museums, art galleries, records offices and private companies - including Royal Doulton, Purdeys, Thomas Cook and RNIB.

Our aim is to excel in the delivery of preservation and archiving services through the use and development of microfilming, scanning and digitisation techniques.

We specialise in the digitisation of small/high value collections that demand customisation and state-of-the-art output. Our service encompasses scanning, photography and the transfer of analogue audio/video to post-digitisation imaging and optimisation. We uphold strict handling, storage and security practices (BS5454:2000), and are experienced with digitising fragile materials. One of our strengths is the capacity to operate as a one-stop-shop that caters for the whole life cycle of an object, from guidance and digitisation, through to data management, storage, access and long-term preservation. We can provide a complete service to ensure that the potential of your digital assets is realised.

We can clean and evaluate Umatic, Beta SP, Digital Betacam, Beta SX, HDCAM, HDCAM-SR, IMX, DVCAM, DVCPRO and DV tapes as well. We offer an archive clean service which is beneficial to the long term storage of videotape and is often used to derive the optimum signal from the tapes before transfer or digitisation.

Established since 1995, Daydream are a leading provider of digital asset management systems and related digital asset services, including: media digitisation, video capture & transcoding, metadata generation & management and online digital media streaming. Our DAM platform, FocusOPEN, provides many of these services as built-in features, but we can also cater for individual digitisation and encoding projects with our flexible, cost-competitive media asset services. We have worked with organisations in both the private and public sectors, including English Heritage and the London Business School.

All video goes through a NLE meaning it can be digitally enhanced, edges cleaned, cropped to any size and colours restored. We can also split into individual files and re-titled.

We can transfer a wide range of old analogue formats to digital using some of the best of yesterday's and today's technology. All transfer machines are carefully chosen and maintained to offer the best quality at reasonable prices. The Focusrite analogue to digital conversion hardware we use is excellent sounding and offers a range of sample rates up to 24-Bit / 96 Khz for the highest quality transfers.

We provide a professional video or video archive digitisation service. Using our imaging expertise, this service goes beyond a typical physical conversion from video to DVD, as it can also include calibration, enhancement and editing. As well as digitisation, we can assist and advise on archive management, uploading video content to the web, branded duplication etc. We have extensive experience in the cultural and natural heritage sectors in stills and video digitisation and archive management.

Audio Transfers is a division of the Inflight Group of Companies and specialise in Digitisation, Format / File Conversions, Archiving, Compiling / Pre-Mastering and Audio Library Administration for the Music Industry, audio archives and related sectors.

DAS-360° is a UK based micro-business delivering digital services to the culture sector. Formerly known as Mike Hirst - Digital Audio, the business is built on over 10 years experience working with musuems, libraries and archives. Services include digitisation, audio editing, preparation for print, exhibition and web design, data transfer and project management.

With our own collection of c. 150,000 78s and two professionally equipped transfer studios, the King's Sound Archive is well placed to provide digital copies of both our own discs and recordings brought to us. For more details on how we work, see Making transfers from 78rpm sources - the CHARM Transfer Engineer's approach.

We handle the material other companies regard as too old, too fragile or simply do not understand. Quite a lot of our work comes from rescuing material other companies have failed to transfer successfully. The oldest material we have rescued was recorded in 1920. What makes us different from some of the younger companies is that we restore the sound quality of the material we receive, rather than simply digitising it on a production line basis. Repair of damaged material and hand editing is our speciality. We work closely with clients on each individual project.

SHAW SOUNDS offer a professional audio transfer service in the South East of England. We convert many analogue formats to CD using the best quality equipment to ensure the highest standard of sound. LP to CD Vinyl to CD EPs to CD 45 singles to CD 78 to CD. Reel tape and audio cassettes are efficiently copied to either CD or .mp3 format. We also use Cedar Audio restoration technology to remove clicks, crackle, buzz and hum and all unwanted noise from your recordings. We pride ourselves in giving a prompt, personal and friendly service with a turn round completion time of around 2 to 5 days for most projects.

From the Barbican Collection the British Film Institute, from Lew Stone Collection to British Library Sound Archives, Sirensound Digital has been involved from the ground level in archive production and delivery. Using a broad range of talents accumultaed over many years, Sirensound can offer a practical solution to many audio archival needs to make precious collections available to future generations of listeners, writers, broadcasters and scholars.

BBC Transcription trained engineer with long experience of both analogue and digital formats. Fully equipped transfer/mastering facility using Sadie and Cedar workstations and Prism convertors. Experience with BL NSA as both staff member and contractor. Four Cedar awards for audio restoration. Retrieval from deteriorated or damaged media (eg sticky/acetate tape) a speciality.

Bring your old recordings back to life with TRANSFER. Our high-tech studio can transform and convert your media. Whether you have old gramophone records or cassettes with old company history we can restore, convert and even clean them up and enable you to play them once more. Digital file conversion and clean up services also available.

Avocado Productions, though based in the United States, has been transferring audio recordings for happy families and archives around the world. In 1998 we began specializing in the transfer of wire recordings. Our work includes the transfer of a wire recording made of an IBM Building Dedication Ceremony in 1948 found in a time capsule by IBM employees in New York. And we continue to do wire recording transfer work for the Vedanta Archives in Hollywood, CA. which recently received a National Archives grant. We have transferred wires from Russia, Denmark and the UK.

Creative Audio Works provides transfer and restoration of analog audio formats to digital audio formats for future generations. Weather it be 1 or 5000 tapes we have the experience to complete your job. With state of the art software and hardware now available, we are able to transfer media from obsolete formats onto modern permanent formats, such as CD, DVD-A or .wav file for posting to the net. In addition, we have the technology to restore old recordings by removing unwanted noise such as clicks, pops, hum and tape hiss.

Preservation Transfer of 1/4-inch tape to CDR, using Nakamichi DR-3 and Nagra IV-S.

At Joav Shdema Inc. we offer professional audio, video and film restoration, digitisation, transfer and archiving for clients in the UK, Europe and the Americas for over 15 years. We pride in the highest professional service at the best offshore prices. We own the proper tools to handle ANY job while offering complete METADATA for future recall of your precious material. We implement a thorough QC process to meet any demand. We are an Israeli based firm with a client list of top media and archiving organisations.

Company established in Spain in 1998. Our website is available in English and Spanish and we also speak French. We primarily provide a cost-effective service for the amateur enthusiast, although we do undertake corporate work as well.

We specialize in high-quality transfers and can handle many 0.150-inch, 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, and 1-inch tape formats. We also have most of the noise reduction systems such as Dolby, dbx, Telcom and Sanyo. Please see our website and Tips and Notes blog for more information.