Historical and Rare Book Digitization Services
Preserve and Digitize Your Valuable Books with eRecordsUSA’s Historical and Rare Book Digitization Services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Any methods or materials used to preserve a historical book should be of the highest quality and should be selected to ensure that the preservation methods do not damage the materials or methods used when the book was created. Your book archival services need to understand how to treat books of different eras and printing styles.
All books should be stored in a secure place because the theft of historical documents should never be taken lightly. When you are looking for the right book archival services, you should always ask about their security protocol. Ideally, you want a service that has multiple check-ins and cameras or guards available.
The idea of ethics in such a dry business may seem odd to some, but these books often possess extreme significance for our cultural and social evolution. Your books should always be handled by professionals who understand this and are willing to treat them carefully.
Comprehensive Historical Book Scanning
Our Historical Book Scanning services encompass a wide range of materials. We are equipped to handle the digitization of books of any size, shape, style, and condition. Our archival digitization services include but are not limited to archived collections, annual reports, board minutes, consumer catalogs, correspondence, employee newsletters, HR files, contracts, manuscript collections, maps, drawings, media libraries, microfilm, microfiche, newspaper clippings, articles, photo collections, photo slides, negatives, photo albums, sales and marketing materials, research files, trade catalogs, legal documents, artwork, letters, and postcard collections. We understand the historical significance of these books and ensure that they are preserved meticulously for future access.
Expert Rare Book Digitization
Our Rare Book Digitization services are designed to protect and preserve the delicate and valuable books in your collection. Using specialized scanning technology, we handle and digitize even the most fragile books without compromising their condition. This service is ideal for libraries, collectors, and institutions that wish to safeguard the rich heritage embedded in their rare books. We convert these books into readable and searchable formats, making them accessible on various digital devices. Additionally, our services include the repair of pages before scanning, ensuring that the digital copies are as accurate and complete as possible.
Digitizing the Rare and Fragile
At eRecordsUSA, we take pride in our ability to manage fragile, rare, and one-of-a-kind materials with the utmost care. Our expertise includes handling loose papers, bound books, records, newspapers, maps, drawings, and large-format materials. We use state-of-the-art planetary book scanning equipment that ensures high dpi and image quality without damaging book bindings. Our non-destructive methods and adherence to FADGI imaging standards guarantee that your collections are preserved in their original condition while producing high-quality digital images. We also offer on-site scanning services for materials that cannot leave their permanent location, ensuring the highest level of security and convenience.
Why Choose eRecordsUSA for Historical and Rare Book Digitization?
- Safe Archiving Protection: We ensure the digitization and secure storage of your older books and periodicals, preserving their contents for future posterity. Our state-of-the-art book scanning technology allows for the safe storage of multiple copies in secure locations, both on removable media and in the cloud.
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR): We employ OCR technology to accurately digitize each page, creating a searchable file that captures all text and photographic elements.
- Special Handling: Our experienced professionals handle all delicate and rare books with the utmost care, using high-tech equipment and protective measures such as wearing gloves.
- Easy Accessibility: Once digitized, your books can be accessed in various formats, including PDF, JPEG, TIFF, RTF/TEXT, and more. This makes it easier to share and read your collections on multiple devices.
- Secure Delivery: We ensure the secure delivery of your digitized books, whether through physical media or secure digital platforms.
Our Process
- Collection: We arrange for the collection of your books through an experienced courier, ensuring safe transport to our premises.
- Preparation: Upon arrival, a project manager assigns the task to a rare book-scanning expert who inspects each item to determine the best format for digitization.
- Scanning: Using specialized overhead liner book scanners, we capture the content of each book with meticulous care, converting them into the desired formats.
- Delivery: Once digitized, we securely deliver the digital copies in your preferred format.
Trust eRecordsUSA
With eRecordsUSA, you can trust that your historical and rare books will be handled with the highest level of professionalism and care. Our custom-made processes and advanced scanning equipment ensure that your books remain intact and in virtually the same condition as before scanning while producing high-quality digital copies. Choose eRecordsUSA for all your Historical Document Scanning & Preservation Services and Historical and Rare Book Digitization needs and secure the future of your precious collections.
Would you like to receive a free quote to archive and digitize your books? Call (510) 900-8800 or email us at hello@erecordsusa.com.
eRecordsUSA offers Book Archival Services in the following areas of California, Redwood City, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, Mountain View, San Francisco, San Jose, Sunnyvale, San Mateo, Marin East Bay: Milpitas, Contra Costa, Oakland, Pleasanton, Fremont, Hayward, Concord, Livermore, Alameda, San Ramon, Dublin, Napa Valley: Pittsburg, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Fairfield, Vallejo, Petaluma, Solano & 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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