Ensure the longevity and accessibility of your valuable data with eRecordsUSA’s precise aperture card scanning services, converting your physical archives into high-quality digital formats.
[boomdevs_toc]Aperture cards are used to store a broad range of information. However, they can be delicate and will be damaged or lost over time. Our aperture card scanning service is the ideal solution to help protect that data.
eRecordsUSA provides professional scanning & digitization services for Aperture Card films. Use our aperture card scanning services to convert your Aperture Card Films into high-quality digital images in any of the popular formats such as JPG, TIF, etc. When you transfer these Aperture Cards to digital formats, you free up valuable office space and ensure quick and easy access to the information you need, right when you need it. With over a decade of experience performing Aperture Card scanning services, our dedicated staff brings unparalleled expertise to every project to ensure complete success from start to finish.
Understanding Aperture Cards: Standard vs. Hollerith
Aperture cards are a type of microform made from cardstock, typically measuring 3 inches by 7 inches. These cards feature an aperture on the right side that holds a piece of 35mm microfilm. Historically, they have been used to store engineering drawings, planning documents, and other critical records. There are two primary types of aperture cards:
Standard Aperture Cards:
These cards consist of plain cardstock with a piece of 35mm microfilm. The card usually includes a title block, which can feature either typed or handwritten information. Some standard aperture cards may also contain multiple images, necessitating careful cropping and framing during the scanning process.
Standard aperture card featuring 35mm microfilm, ready for high-quality digitization by eRecordsUSA.
Hollerith Aperture Cards:
Unlike standard aperture cards, Hollerith cards feature punch holes that store data. This data can be captured using a special card scanner, which reads the punch holes to index the digital file. However, the success of this method varies, as the data may sometimes be jumbled or incomplete, requiring additional manual indexing.
Hollerith aperture card with punch holes, digitized by eRecordsUSA for efficient data indexing and access.
Why Digitize Your Aperture Cards Today?
Digitizing your aperture cards offers numerous benefits, including:
- Instant Accessibility: Digital images can be accessed immediately from any internet-connected device.
- Space Efficiency: Free up valuable office space by eliminating physical storage of aperture cards and readers.
- Data Security: Protect your information from loss, theft, and degradation.
- Cost Savings: Avoid the maintenance costs of aperture card readers and printers.
- Business Continuity: Ensure disaster recovery and uninterrupted operations.
- Enhanced Collaboration: Digital files can be easily shared across various platforms.
Our Aperture Card Scanning Process
eRecordsUSA follows a meticulous process to ensure high-quality digitization:
- Project Initiation: We begin by understanding your specific requirements and creating a scope of work.
- Card Reception and Tagging: Your aperture cards are received, tagged, and securely stored in our facility.
- Milestone 1 Proof of Concept: We employ a build-test-refine method to develop and test the process flow.
- Scanning and Post-Processing: Cards are scanned using high-speed, dual-stream systems to produce both grayscale and black-and-white images. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and quality assurance checks are performed to ensure data accuracy.
- Indexing: Hollerith data is captured automatically when available; otherwise, manual indexing is conducted.
- Delivery: Digital files are delivered via USB or our secure cloud storage.
Our Aperture Card Scanning Capabilities
At eRecordsUSA, we have scanned millions of aperture cards over time. We offer high-speed, accurate scanning to ensure peace of mind. In addition, we can offer both grayscale and black-and-white images using our dual-stream scanning systems. If data is punched on the card, that information can be indexed automatically. Cards lacking Hollerith data can be indexed manually, as well.
Benefits Of Aperture Card Scanning
You’ll find a wide range of benefits with our aperture card scanning services, including the ability to make data available instantly. In addition, once digitized, your data is:
- Accessible through web-connected devices
- Protected from loss, theft, and degradation
- Shareable across a wide range of platforms
With our digitization services, our clients have been able to eliminate the need for aperture cards and associated equipment, as well as to boost their productivity and customer service.
Tailored Aperture Card Scanning Services
At eRecordsUSA, we understand that every project is unique. Our services are tailored to meet the specific needs of our clients, which range from archivists and genealogists to major corporations and government entities. With over a decade of experience, we have successfully digitized millions of aperture cards, ensuring our clients enjoy the full benefits of digital technology.
We have scanned millions of aperture cards and helped our clients enjoy the benefits of digital technology. Those clients have included the US military, gas companies, manufacturers, major electric companies, and even nuclear power plants. We can do the same for you. Contact eRecordsUSA today for a free quote on your aperture card scanning needs.
Contact Us
Unlock the full potential of your aperture card archive and embrace the digital era with eRecordsUSA. For more information or to schedule a scanning service, call us at (510) 900-8800 or send an email to hello@erecordsusa.com. Let us assist you in converting your legacy data into a valuable digital asset that supports your future endeavors.
We scan & digitize a lot of Aperture Cards, professionally. The scan resolution we offer meets archiving standards and is unlike most of the other aperture card scanning service providers. We digitize for archivists, genealogists, historians, librarians, historical societies, family histories, artists, and collectors. If you would like to receive a free quote for an Aperture card scanning service that will result in high-resolution electronic images in any digital format. Call (510) 900-8800 to get a quote.
eRecordsUSA is specialized in providing Aperture Card Scanning Services/ Aperture Card Digitization Services. Would you like to receive a free quote to archive your historical, stored Aperture Cards/ films? Call (510) 900-8800 or email us at hello@erecordsusa.com.
eRecordsUSA offers Aperture Card Scanning Services in following areas of California, San Mateo, San Francisco, Mountain View, Redwood City, Marin, San Jose, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, East Bay: Contra Costa, Fremont, Milpitas, Hayward, Alameda, Concord, Oakland, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, Napa Valley: Fairfield, Santa Rosa, Solano, Sonoma, Vallejo, Petaluma, Pittsburg & Martinez.
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needed one personal journal scanned - they were super responsive and did a great job of it! Galina T.
5/10/2025 - I contacted the eRecordsUSA team for a project scanning several dozen journals. I was a little nervous at first about shipping irreplaceable personal records for someone else to handle, but from the first call with Pankaj it was clear I was in excellent hands. From start to finish I've never experienced such thoughtful, responsive customer service, and the final color scans I received are sharp, accurate, and perfectly organized. I am thrilled to have over a decade of journals scanned and preserved so beautifully. eRecordsUSA will be my first call for any future digitizing needs. Jenny G.
4/23/2025 - Excellent digitization services! Swift email replies to any questions (usually within hours if not minutes).
My three 300+ page hardback books were very professionally scanned into PDFs and they look stunning! Joshua B.
4/10/2025 - Pankaj and crew at eRecordsUSA did a beautiful job making scans of our old family archives that span four generations. Now I have thousands of neatly organized .pdf files with crisp & clear scans of my family's handwritten letters, photos, slides, and fragile documents from 100 years ago. I've been daydreaming about this project for over a decade, and I'm very grateful to now have it so successfully completed. Brian S.
2/25/2025 - I had an unusual requirement that involved scanning a 4' by 8' document on a roll. The staff did an excellent job capturing all the information, using several approaches to ensure the best reproduction. I'm grateful for the time the staff took to explain the options. I'm very pleased with the result. Lawrence I.
1/28/2025 - My experience with E-Records USA and their dedicated team was beyond reproach. They kindly hand held me through a long term project of digitizing every photo album, framed photo, and CD accumulated for over 30 years. They showed me what they could do back in 2022 and waited patiently until I was fully ready to make the project happen in 2024. I know they have many other clients, but I always felt like I was priority and important. They never shied away from all my questions, concerns, and fairly constant stream of emails. They patiently took me through the whole project and kept me updated informed at every step. This was not inexpensive, but the peace of mind I have that all our memories are now safely stored in a few places and can be accessed by my family at any time is worth it. And I freed up many, many boxes and therefore shelves full of bulky photo albums and framed pictures. It was something I had wanted to do for several years and I am so glad I found a company that was so trustworthy and caring about these invaluable memories. I would work with them in the future without question. They went above and beyond. Joan L.
11/16/2024 - They copied my 500 page family genealogy book and created a PDF file so that I can share with other family members. They did a wonderful job at a reasonable price. Marty F.
10/03/2024 - Had them digitize my grandmother's daily diary from 1912. It was in a bound journal. Files came out great. My cousins were thrilled to be able to read it. Was done in only a few short days. Carolyn B.
6/05/2024 - My family and I feel so fortunate to have found Pankaj and eRecords USA. We have dozens of family photo albums and with three siblings there wasn't going to be a good way to split them up. The photos were in albums with plastic sheet covers and many of them had writing on the back and/or on the side of the picture on the album itself. We wanted to preserve the handwriting and information about the photo and the actual photos.
Before consulting with Pankaj my highest hope was to get the photos scanned. What he was able to do went above and beyond what I had hoped for. Not only did he create a PDF each album, preserving the order of the photos and all of the handwriting, but he then provided individual scans of every single photo AND the information on the back at a resolution quality that will allow us print the photos in the future. Not a single photo was damaged and some of them were in albums for over 70 years.
I can't imagine the patience and perseverance it took to gently handle these hundreds of photos. In addition to the quality of the work, the communication, customer service, delivery times, accuracy of pricing and transparency of the process were top notch. We are so grateful to have these memories preserved for ourselves and future generations. Thank you Pankaj and team! sarah k.
6/01/2024 - I used their services to scan a book without damaging it. The scan was of very good quality, the book undamaged. I am very satisfied of the work done. Maurizio B.
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