Generation Imaging provides Florida microfilm scanning services, but the bulk of our customers come from all over the United States and the world. Scanning services do not have to be local. Roll film can easily and safely be packed and shipped.

Whether you have a large roll film project that requires a digital conversion, you will be pleased to know that Generation Imaging can begin begin your project immediately. Thousands of companies and individuals throughout the years have taken the step to digitize their film, and Generation Imaging is an excellent and viable scanning services solution.

If your roll film is beginning to degrade, or if you wish to preserve it before it degrades, out microfilm scanning services will help you.

Generation Imaging converts 16mm roll film and 35mm roll film. What is the difference? You can take a ruler to measure across the width of the film. If you do not have the film in front of you, most of the time 16mm contains over 2,000 frames, while 35mm contains around 500 images (total generalized ballpark).

35mm roll film usually contain journals, maps, blueprints, diaries, blueprints, or drawings (also a generalization, as any type of document can be on 16mm or 35mm). The key is the reduction ratio: 16mm film usually have images filmed at 24X, 28X, 32x, 42X, 48X and more (plus everything in-between), while 35mm reels usually are around 12X, 14X, 16X, or 18X.

Generation Imaging’s microfilm scanning services include greyscale imaging, bi-tonal scans, autocropping, manual cropping, splitting, indexing, creating OCR searchable PDFs, multi-page images, and database matching.

In addition to microfilm scanning services, Generation Imaging also provides microfiche conversion, aperture card scanning, slide scanning, Florida document scanning, and 16mm archive writing.

What are the benefits of microfilm scanning services?

Because you go from an analogue media to a digital version, you will save time and money on real storage and on retrieval convenience. Your images are on always on hand without specialized equipment to view the data. Additionally the files can be easily shared with others via CD, DVD, USB, e-mail internet, intranet, or printing.

Contact Generation Imaging for a microfilm scanning services price.

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USC used microfilm scanning services, probably from a microfilm scanning company, to digitize old newspaper issues for a local library. Every week it seems like another library uses the services from a microfilm scanning company to put historical documents to a digital system. Generation Imaging is one scanning company that specializes in microfilm scanning, and we are glad to be part of this process. It is interesting to come in contact with our past and to be able to bring this valuable information to the present.

Our scanning company uses specialized microfilm scanners to generate extremely high quality images from microfilm. The microfilm can be 16mm or 35 mm microfilm and the output can also be customized to the need of the user. It is possible for our scanning company to generate tiffs, jpef, or pdf files and the images can be grayscale. This scanning company is equipped with the latest tools needed to make a microfilm conversion process simple for you.

Libraries that hold microfilm can contact Generation Imaging directly to find out what this microfilm scanning company can do for your microfilm conversion project. Chances are that this scanning company has done many other projects very similar to yours. The experience from all previous project will help make your project even better. This scanning company can provide references to prior projects and can easily provide prices that another scanning company can’t This is because our scanning company has taken steps to promote efficiency and all the savings are passed on to the customer.

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Fire damages to the State Historical Research Center in the University of Missouri library could have damage valuable records. This is one advantage to digitize negatives from microfilm. Many Libraries that have valuable records in microfiche or microfilm format could be running a risk of loosing valuable information if the microfilm gets damaged. Instead, if they digitize negatives, the microfilm is transferred to digital files and all the information can be backed up and protected.

To digitize negatives, the microfilm needs to be scanned using a high quality microfilm scanner. This process will ensure that the digitize negatives will result in good quality scans. This process is fast and inexpensive and I encourage all libraries to explore the possibility of performing this task on their microfilm as well. Libraries and other historical centers can test their digitize negatives for free. By doing this, they can see samples of the information without an expense.

Digitize negatives also protects microfilm from age. The older the microfilm, the higher the chances of it developing vinegar syndrome. When this happens, the microfilm begins to smell bad. As this process worsens, the film may begin to lose quality. I you are able to get digitize negatives from the microfilm before this process starts, you could save the valuable information from disaster.

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With so many websites calling themselves a scanning service bureau around the world, here are a few tell tale signs if you should consider moving on to partnering with Generation Imaging, instead of dealing with companies that frustrate you:

1. If you don’t receive an e-mailed quote response back or phone call within the same weekday or- max 24 hours- more than likely the microfilm scanning company is simply a broker or e-mail collector. It could also be that their customer service rep doesn’t check e-mail or the company does not have a backup worker that checks e-mail.
2. The company is unable or unwilling to furnish references upon request (in the microfilm scanning industry, many times clients require confidentiality, but a company still needs to have references).
3. The company has no direct phone number. This usually means you are dealing with a middle-man.
4. Up-charges- after you agree to a scanning price quote and send them the project, you get an e-mail indicating that the cost has doubled for some reason.
5. Some companies use techno-babble to make a project sound harder than it really is. They are like auto-mechanics. I heard one company say they might have to charge more for a positive 16mm microfilm vs a negative 16mm microfilm, thinking I was some rube. Contact Generation Imaging if you feel that you are being taken advantage of from someone else- Damian Hospital and Dan Gandul are straight-shooters and have decades of experience with all types of microfilm, microfiche, and aperture cards.
6. “I’ll call you back in 30 seconds”-…but they DON’T! When you actually get someone on the phone and ask them about the status of your microfilm project, you may hear a bunch of excuses why they can’t answer your simple question. Most of the time it’s because the company has no internal production organization…many Florida microfilm scanning companies are not known for their organizational skills. Dan and Damian have dealt with companies such as these and do not repeat their mistakes. Another time it occurs is when the person you are talking to isn’t even involved in the project (or is just a head-hunter), or it got subcontracted to someone else.
7. The microfilm company balks at your request to visit their office. Most of the time it’s because they have no office.
8. If you leave multiple phone call messages on an answering machine…still with no response…it’s time to move on to someone else, folks.

You know, I can go on and on about microfilm scanning companies. Just give Generation Imaging a try and see the refreshing difference- high quality at a low price for the new economy.

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The main use of a microfiche reader is to enlarge information on the microfiche so that you can read it. You can view and read the contents on a microfiche cards when you enlarge the information by projection. The microfiche reader allows you to read information that is not seen with the naked eye.  The microfiche readers with two microfiche holders permits you to switch between two cards very fast. If you need to compare something on a microfiche card to something on a second microfiche, you can load both.

Microfiche readers have served a very important role in the history of microfiche. Once the most efficient way to read information from microfiche cards, microfiche readers are not so common anymore. If you dad microfiche cards, you had to have a microfiche reader to use them. Microfiche readers have become a secondary tool as opposed to the main way to read microfiche cards.

Today we encourage people that are looking for a microfiche reader, to consider scanning the microfiche card to convert the information to a digital format. Once the information is converted, it is stored on your computer. Once digitized, you will not need to use the microfiche or the microfiche viewer any more. You can do many things with a computer file that you were not able to do efficiently with the microfiche cards. But the greatest benefits of the microfiche conversion to digital is that you can store and retrieve the information super fast from anywhere . If you like the idea of scanning your microfiche, let us know.

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Buy a microfilm scanner or outsource the roll film to a microfilm scanning company- that is actually a great situation to be in. If you have the green light to digitize 16mm roll film or 35mm microfilm the first question to ask would be: is it cheaper to convert the microfilm yourself or to outsource it to a microfilm service bureau.

It is most likely that it is less expensive to convert by outsourcing microfilm to a trusted microfilm scanning company like ScanningDepot.  We can assist you in helping you identify the type of roll film, which file format would be ideal, and how to name the files.

A true microfilm scanning company will provide you with fast samples via e-mail and speak with you over the phone.

You can profit from a digital conversion partnership as well because  if you can also become a microfilm reseller if you looking to expand your capabilities.  We will give you excellent microfilm conversion prices so that you can  profit without the risk of investing an enormous capital investment by purchasing a new microfilm scanner and investing time and money to train labor.

We at ScanningDepot have been in the microfilm digitization industry since the beginning and we can vouch that experience is an important factor or in making a the decision to outsource or attempt to scan microfilm in-house.

Contact us now for a microfilm scanning quote.

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