Top-rated microfiche and microfilm scanning services in San Francisco, CA, provided by eRecordsUSA for precise and reliable document digitization.
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Microfilm/ Microfiche are storage mediums to store information and records. Typically, microfilm is a roll while microfiche is cards containing information and records. Modern digitization methods ensure the conversion of the most troublesome microfiche and microfilm into digital copies (PDF, Tiff, or JPEG)High-quality digital images allow the data, images, and graphs to create sharable copies. These digital copies are indexed and stored on the shared platforms.Β Mekel MACH7 ScannerΒ is used to convert various types of microfilm & it is capable of achieving FADGI star ratings.
What Is Microfilm Scanning?
Microfilm scanning is an important process that is used to digitize old documents and images. It is a quick, easy, and affordable way to preserve your valuable memories and documents.
Microfilm scanning is a process by which digital images of scanned film can be converted to a digital format. This technology is often used in archives, libraries, and museums to preserve historic documents. Microfilm scanning allows you to capture images of documents and images on microfilm. This technology can be used to preserve historical records, images, and other important documents.
Microfilm was created in the 1880s. Overtime the technology of creating, preserving, and accessing microfilm drastically improved. However, 140 years of developments have left a hodgepodge of different types of microfilm. Microfilm is typically kept on rolls or in film canisters. It comes in 16 or 35-millimeter rolls that can have a single row of images (simplex) or a double row of images (duplex). Sometimes the images are positive, like photographs, and sometimes they are negative, like x-rays. And sometimes, though not always, the microfilm is blipped, which is to say that little rectangles run along the edges of the film to help viewers keep track of where they are on the roll.
To view the images on microfilm, you need a microfilm reader. This is a device that enlarges the microscopic image of the film to at least 100% of the imageβs original size. Microfilm readers, like the film itself, have gone through several generations of changes. Few microfilm readers are capable of enlarging every type of microfilm.
What Is Microfiche Scanning?
Microfiche scanning is a process of capturing images of large pieces of microfilm using a scanner. Microfiche scanning is used to preserve documents that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to digitize. Microfiche scanning is a technology that allows you to capture images and information on microfilm. This technology is used to preserve important documents, such as birth certificates and marriage licenses.
Microfiche scanning is a process of converting paper documents into digital images. Microfiche scanners are used in libraries, archives, and other institutional settings to preserve and make accessible historic records.
Rather than being stored on a roll or a cassette like microfilm, microfiche is a rectangular sheet that has the same sort of microscopic images that have been cut into strips and placed in sleeves that run across the sheet. Again, there is no uniformity to this process as the size of the sheets and the number of images per sheet can vary. Just as with microfilm, images on a sheet may be positive, they may be negative, or they may be mixed.
Microfiche readers are more uniform in their function. Instead of a roll that must be maneuvered back and forth, the microfiche reader can scan across the entire field of the sheet.
Why You Should Convert Microfilm & Microfiche To Digital Documents?
Documents, records, reports, statistical information, and manuscripts are placed on microform because they are regarded as valuable. If you, as a manager or an administrator, an archivist or a teacher, a researcher or a historian, believe that the information stored on microfiche and microfilm is important, then you should consider scanning the film and converting it to digital files with multiple copies saved in the cloud and external locations as well.
Consider that, at present, if you have important data stored on microform, you very likely have only one copy of that data. If itβs lost, itβs perpetually lost. If, on the other hand, you decide to scan your microfilm and microfiche files and save them digitally, youβll always at least have a backup copy, just in case the film doesnβt last for 500 years.
Main Services Offered By eRecordsUSA
We provide quality microfilm microfiche scanning services for all industries such as healthcare, education, manufacturing, and so on. Our scanning service covers all popular/mainframe formats (e.g. CRUMBIC, ANSI, ARMA, or UNISET) and computer formats (ASCII).
AtΒ eRecordsUSA, we do microfilm, Microfiche/apertureΒ card scanningΒ & digitization with image enhancementΒ capabilities including:
Microfiche Scanning
- All standard/long jacket fiche types plus: COM; AB Dick; Ultra Fiche; Microx
- 16mm or 35mm (or combo)
- Positive or negative
- Diazo, Silver, Vesicular formats
- Duplicates
- Bitonal output to: TIFF (G3, G4) and PDF (all single/multi);Β PDF/A
- Grayscale output to uncompressed TIFF/JPEG (true 256 shades of gray); JPEG 2000; PDF (single/multi-page); PDF/A
Microfilm Scanning
- 100β, 215β, and 1,000β rolls; ANSI, M-types, and open spools
- Β 16mm and 35mm
- Β Positive or negative
- Β Silver, Diazo and Vesicular formats
- Β Bi-tonal output to: TIFF (G3, G4) and PDF (all single/multi);Β PDF/A
- Grayscale output to uncompressed TIFF/JPEG (true 256 shades of gray); JPEG 2000; PDF (single/multi-page); PDF/A
Microfilm and microfiche were wonderfully useful necessities. In this age of high-speed digital scanning, cloud storage, and the instantaneous transfer of data, microform can step aside and allow the next technological generation to get to work recording and preserving the data that is so important.
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eRecordsUSA is an ISO/ISMS Certified Small Minority & Woman-owned business, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. We offer scalable microfiche/microfilm scanning services at an expert level. This year we have adopted Mekel scanners for producing ultra-high quality scanned digital copies.
We have been providing clients withΒ document scanningΒ andΒ data entry servicesΒ in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than a decade.
- We have a dedicated team of professionally skilled technicians to convert microfiche and microfilm.
- Β We begin the process of scanning your roll/fiches to produce high-resolution digital scans (400-600 DPI).
- Β The digital formats we generally use are TIFF, JPEG, or PDF.
To do the indexing and create a searchable catalog, the images are converted into retrievable formats. The digital images are then stored on the cloud or a personal soft copy is provided to the client using a digital storage medium(USB, DVD, etc.). We are known for paying attention to minute details ensuring 100% conversion from cards or rolls.
Outsourcing your microfilm/microfiche project to us will provide easy, hassle-free, and cost-effective scanning and digitization. You can rely on our services.
To receive a free quote, call (510) 900-8800 or email us at hello@erecordsusa.comΒ now.
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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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