Conversion Services Microfilm/Microfiche/Aperture Card Scanning

Microfilm, Microfiche and Aperture Card Digitization

A member of the Crowley team in the process of Microfilm digitization Crowley Imaging has built the largest digitizing capacity in the industry, scanning in excess of 100 million images in the last decade alone. The firm has earned a positive reputation for the use of technology and expertise that allows for the conversion of even the most troublesome film to a high-quality finished product.

Microform digitization capabilities include:

Aperture Card Scanning

MIL, ISO and DINSilver aperture cards
Hollerith code capture with output to text
8-bit grayscale or bi-level images
100-800 dpi resolution
Output to most data formats

Microfiche Scanning

All standard/long jacket fiche types plus: COM; AB Dick; Ultra Fiche; Microx
16mm or 35mm (or combo)
Simplex or duplex
Positive or negative
Diazo, Silver, Vesicular formats
Duplicates
Cine/comic mode
Bi-tonal output to: TIFF (G3, G4) and PDF (all single/multi); PDF/A
Grayscale output to: uncompressed TIFF/JPEG (true 256 shades of gray); JPEG 2000; PDF (single/multi-page); PDF/A

Microfilm Scanning

100’, 215’ and 1,000’ rolls; ANSI, M-types and open spools
16mm and 35mm
Simplex or duplex
Positive or negative
Silver, Diazo and Vesicualr formats
Bi-tonal output to: TIFF (G3, G4) and PDF (all single/multi); PDF/A
Grayscale output to: uncompressed TIFF/JPEG (true 256 shades of gray); JPEG 2000; PDF (single/multi-page); PDF/A

Output/Additional Services

Delivery via ftp or external drives for customer post-processing
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for full text searches
Manual indexing

The Crowley Technology Advantage: Manufacturing

The Crowley Company opened its doors in 1980 as a distributor of micrographic equipment. Ten years later, Crowley Imaging was created to provide microfilm, microfiche and aperture scanning services. In October of 2003, The Crowley Company went one step further and acquired Mekel Technology, the leading manufacturer of high-speed production microfilm and microfiche scanners. Today, Crowley Imaging and its clients are the beneficiaries of this collaboration, which pairs a highly talented and experienced engineering and R&D staff with Crowley imaging and film scanning professionals. As end-users of a product manufactured in-house, Crowley Imaging has the unique ability to tailor hardware or software technology to a client’s specific requirements and also affect the future of microform scanning and processing.

System Implementation

The Crowley programming staff has proven experience in managing data conversions. This expertise allows for final output integration into the wide array of document management solutions on the market today or into a custom solution engineered for a specific business application. Whether the needs are internal, external or for web distribution, Crowley Imaging has the capabilities to provide the needed solution to integrate digitized images into a workflow.

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