Scanning Oversized Documents

By Northern Micrographics

Oversized materials often get shelved away from related materials. Converting these materials to digital format allows them to coexist with memos, letters, and book pages.

Scanning such large and sometimes fragile materials calls for special equipment and trained operators. Northern Micrographics has been scanning and filming large format materials for a wide variety of customers from the Fortune 500 companies to small town libraries with hand drawn area maps for years.

Marinette County Public Library had oversized atlases in its collection that were wearing out due to overuse. Northern Micrographics scanned each page of the atlases at high resolution and reprinted the pages on acid free, thirty-four inch paper.

The resulting images and reprints reduced the need for patrons to always examine the original source documents.

Additionally, they are archived in the ANSI standard vault at Northern Micrographics and can be reproduced from the CDs if anything should happen to the prints or the image files.

Working with microforms since the 1940’s and digital imagery since the early 1980’s, Northern Micrographics understands the need for securing the permanence of the data. Proper storage and vigilance are necessary with any media.

Northern Micrographics can reformat your paper to film or digiformat, your film to paper or digital formats, your digital files to film or any combination of medium.

Courtesy of Northern Micrographics. www.normicro.com