Posts Tagged ‘microfilm’
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Microstat have recently undertaken a microfiche conversion task that involved not only the digitisation of microfiche, but also the transcription of old and often poor quality characters. We are often asked to carry out this sort of tasks for museums and libraries, as well as companies involved in genealogy work. Once the microfiche are in electronic format, Microstat then apply a unique blend of technology and human eyesight to the written images. Firstly, using bespoke Optical Charater Recognition software, each character is analysed and the results fed through to a team of highly trained operators who will assess the accuracy of the softwares analysis of the individual characters and resulting words, again with the help of another software programme.
The results are outstanding, with many archives of old typed, and in some cases, even handwritten text being transcribed with remarkably accurate results.
If you have a need for digitising old microfilm or microfiche, contact us and we will discuss what we can achieve for you, and produce a sample and precise quote. We can offer an identical service if your original material is paper in single sheet or bound book form. Microstat are adept at getting your information in a readable and searchable form, whatever its present format, as we offer the complete range of Document scanning requirements.
Contact Steve Cave or Tim Myatt on 0121 486 2020 or email www.info@microstat.co.uk for more information
Tags: digitisation of microfiche, Document Scanning, electronic format, genealogy, microfiche, microfiche conversion, microfilm, optical character recognition, transcription
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Midland based document scanning bureau, Microstat has just announced that they have now scanned and made available to their client, their one millionth document image on their website hosted service.
Managing Director, Steve Cave, speaking from their Birmingham offices, said ” we are all really pleased that this milestone has been passed, we never expected it to happen so soon, we have only been offering the service for 12 months ” The web hosted service, that is offered via Microstats purpose built website, www.filingontheweb.com/microstat and is used in conjunction with Microstats document scanning service. Once a clients documents are scanned they are uploaded by Microstat to the website where the client can access them with their unique log in and password details. Clients choose the service as it allows them access to their files anywhere in the world, and does not impact their own companies I.T. resources.
Remember, it is not just for documents that are scanned, we also load images that come from client supplied microfiche and microfilm, which our midland production facility converts to digital format. Also, clients can have large size drawings converted.
More information, pricing details, and even a sample on the website can be shown to interested parties. Contact our Sales Manager, Tim Myatt on 0121 486 2020 or e-mail tim.myatt@microstat.co.uk for more information
Tags: Birmingham, birmingham scanning, digital format, documents are scanned, filingontheweb.com, microfiche, microfilm, Midland, midland scanning, webhosted service
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Microstat are very pleased to announce that they have taken delivery of the very latest microfiche scanning equipment from Wicks and Wilson. This is because Microfiche scanning and microfilm scanning is an important part of Microstats business. Converting microfilm and microfiche to PDF or TIF format is becoming increasingly important to organizations.
After carefully evaluating the market we settled on Wicks and Wilson FS 300 microfiche scanners to give us the best possible equipment for high speed and high quality images from microfiche. This is in addition to our ability to scan from microfilm in reel format and microfilm drawings in aperture cards.
Commenting on this latest purchase, Managing Director, Steve Cave added, ‘ We strongly believe that we are able to handle any job of any size very quickly indeed with this latest investment. Myself and my team were very impressed with the speed and quality offered by Wicks and Wilson kit – and the fact that they are designed and built in Britain is the icing on the cake, I think it is superb that we can invest in a home grown product!’
We have already scanned 10,000 microfiche for a client within a matter of weeks of taking delivery, and the results so impressed the client, a repeat order has already been secured.
If you want a quote or a free sample from your microfilm, microfiche or aperture card, please get in touch, we would love to help.
Tags: convertingmicrofilm and microfiche to PDF or IF formats, microfiche, microfiche scanning, microfilm, microfilm scanning, scan from microfilm, scanned microfiche
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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
Tags: digitised microfiche, digitised microfilm, microfiche, microfilm, scanned documents, scanning genealogical records, scanning records
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Congratulations are in order to Pam and Shirley who are both 60 this year. Both have been with Microstat nearly since its beginning in 1982. They started in the days when the company was only involved with creating microfilm and microfiche. However, they happily adapted to using computers, scanners and associated indexing.
They have been invaluable in training newcomers to scan and showing them how longstanding jobs need batching and indexing. They have greatly contributed to the stability and family atmosphere of the Microstat workforce.
We thank them for their loyalty and are pleased they have chosen to stay with us into their 70th decade!
Tags: indexing, loyalty, microfiche, microfilm, training
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