Archive for the ‘microfilm scanning’ Category

Charity benefits from Directors Three Peaks Yacht Race!

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

 

In the last week of June our intrepid Managing Director, Tim Myatt, conquered the Three Peaks Yacht Race for the second time, with all the sponsorship and proceeds from a glitzy after race party, attended by 250 guests, all going to the James Myatt Trust to take disadvantaged children on challenging sailing holidays.

Tim and the other 4 members of the Torbellino Team, were thrilled to gain a very creditable 6th place this year, a full 6 place improvement on last years 12th position. The gruelling race, which takes 5 days and nights to complete, starting in North Wales, and sailing to the Highlands of Scotland, requires each team to race up Britains highest peaks, Snowdon in Wales, Scafell in England and culminating in Ben Nevis in Scotland.

Microstat believe this is a most valuable charity to support, and hopes the team will endeavour to raise more money next year and see if they can achieve a podium finish!

Microstat is a leading supplier of document management services including document scanning, drawing scanning, the digitisation of microfilm aperture cards, scanning of microfiche, microfilm scanning and the conversion to pdf format of any document type. For advice, samples and quotation please contact Tim Myatt on 0121 486 2020 or e-mail tim.myatt@microstat.co.uk

View your documents on-line via Microstat’s ‘Filing On The Web’

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Microstat clients can now view their documents on-line through our web hosted solution – Filing On The Web.  Fully encrypted with secure sign-on functionality, documents are loaded to the web servers for viewing 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.  There is no specific software to purchase or support (apart from Adobe Reader), and so your documents can be viewed from any pc with an internet connection. Goto

https://www.filingontheweb.com/microstat/

This is ideal for customers with remote workers, or those who require a quick turnaround from scanning to image access.

OCR searches can also be performed through Filing On The Web

Please contact us on 0121 486 2020 to find out more

1911 Census goes Digital!

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

You may have heard in the news that the 1911 census for England has been made publicly available on-line for the first time this week. Demand to access this resource is expected to be so high that the Government warned of possible website crashes at the same time as they announced its existence!

It has been made possible by a huge scanning programme carried out by the government of the original hand written records which provides a fascinating snap shot of how 38 million people lived 98 years ago. Football fans will be fascinated ( or not ) to know that David Beckhams great, great grandfather John Beckham was a rag and bone man in London! Well perhaps information on your own family ancestors will seem interesting to you!

Here at Microstat we have been scanning records of a genealogical nature for years, and often suggest to clients that once the records are digitised, that we apply OCR ( Optical Character Recognition ) software over the images in order to allow Full Text Search. Obviously the search advantages that this brings is not restricted purely to digitised Ancestry records, but ANY information that needs searching. For example, searching for ” John Beckham” would bring up all pages containing that phrase, across a repository even of millions of pages!

At Microstat, we have scanned either the documents from an organisation, or digitised their microfilm or microfiche records, and then applied the OCR software, allowing them virtually instant access to any word or phrase. If you would like to see how we can help you, we will scan a section of your records, free of charge.

Contact us at enquiry@microstat.co.uk or call 0121 486 2020 and speak to Tim Myatt or Steve Cave about our service