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Managing valuable information
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For more information, please get in touch: |
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Telephone: +44 (0)121 486 2020 |
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Email: support@microstat.co.uk |
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If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader simply click on the link above. This link will take you to the Adobe website where you can download Acrobat Reader for free. |
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Microfilm Scanning... |
Digital conversion resolves the problem of data access, making microfilm records much easier to work with. |
| Data in microfilm, microfiche and aperture card format can be hard to locate and has to be viewed using old or obsolete equipment. Once digitised, however, data can be retrieved instantly by multiple users from thier PC's using Microstat's Indexing and Full Text Search services. |
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| Having created microfilm for clients in the past, Microstat is best placed to deliver the modern digital alternative. With so many different microfilm systems still in use, the real benefits of sigital conversion will be unique to each client. Microstat can illustrate these with a no obligation sample or site survey. |
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| Overview of Microfilm formats |
| Many of our clients tell us that although they know we digitize Microfiche, they are often confused as to which format is which, and what precisely can be done in terms of converting these microfilms and microfiche to digital formats, so here is a quick guide to help you: |
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| These are postcard size (105mm x 148mm) sheets of plastic that were traditionally used to house computer output information as an alternative to printing out reams of continuous stationery (commonly known as computer printout in its day). |
| Typically they will hold around 250 'pages' or images on each fiche. |
| Also, they were often used to house Technical Manuals, of between 60 and 250 image capacity per Microfiche. |
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| Again, postcard size, they look similar to the Microfiche, but are actually 2 sheets of plastic laminated together to form a number of channels to hold up to 60 individual microfilm images of original documents. |
| They were commonly used to store HR Files, Correspondence files, Company House information as well as Accounts documents and other general office filing. |
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| This would be in 'open reel' form, contained within a flip-top plastic box, or it would be encased within a hard plastic cassette. |
| In both cases the Microfilm was 16mm wide for Office documents (up to A3 size) and 35mm wide for Microfilms of Drawings (A2, A1, and AO size originals) |
| The Microfilm was normally 30 meters long and each one had a maximum capacity of 2,500 A4 size documents. This can increase with smaller documents. |
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| This was a similar size to a standard Microfiche, but held just one Microfilm of a Drawing. |
| The card itself was used to hold index information about the drawing, typically drawing Number, and perhaps and revision details. Pricing starts from £0.30 per card. |
| We are also able to index the digital images exactly as the Microfilm original, or in any amount of detail you wish. For the greatest possible ease and speed of information retrieval, we can OCR (Optical Character Recognition) the scanned images which give you a Full Text Search of your information, allowing you to find any word or phrase from thousands of scanned documents. |
| All of the above formats can easily be converted by us to a variety of digital formats, such as Tif, jpeg or PDF. |
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