HERITAGE DIGITISATION
Automated Document Services are experts in digitising rare, delicate, or important documents.
We are proud to regularly accept orders from reputable organisations across the United Kingdom, including universities, major retailers, and museums.
In our 15 years as scanning experts we’ve made digital archives from all kinds of interesting and peculiar records. We have handled 300-year-old books, MRI scans, and even valuable postage stamps.
Our testimonials speak of our dedication and ability to deliver. We digitise everything from the size of a postage-stamp to A0 size.
Our state-of-the-art technology means we can expertly digitise the following types of documents and more:
- Books
- Manuscripts
- Theses
- Magazines
- Microfilm
- Newspapers
- Glass Plate Negatives
- Photographs
- Birth and Death certificates
But why have your collection digitised at all?
PRESERVATION
An increasing challenge in heritage archiving is the need to allow access to documents whilst trying to keep safe what are often some very delicate and very old items.
SECURITY
Don’t forget the additional benefit of being able to back-up and replicate your documents. In the event of a fire or flood, you will still have a digital replica of each document with all its information intact.
SEARCH AND FIND
It’s not easy to flick through old books looking for that one piece of information; particularly when the collection could be hundreds or thousands of books in total. Our scanning service let’s you use Optical Character Recognition to make your digital archive easy to search. Suddenly there is a wealth of information just seconds away and at your fingertips.
So how does it work?
For more than 15 years, Automated Document Services Ltd (“Auto Docs”) has specialised in high-quality heritage digitisation and associated archiving services.
Auto Docs will ensure archival digitisation:
- Experienced team of staff handling the content & managing the project
- Using a range of specialist high quality heritage digitisation equipment (no feeder scanners would be used – overhead scanner with little/no contact to content, LED lighting to ensure no heat damage to content).
Equipment is certified to international imaging standards (FADGI 4*, Metamorfose full & ISO19264-A)
- Purpose fitted facility for heritage digitisation ensuring security and environmentally acceptable conditions of storage & handling heritage material
- Tried & tested processes for mass production of images & date
- Capacity to ensure a turnaround within agreed timeframes with no compromise on quality or security.
This expertise is coupled with a strong emphasis on developing friendly and long- term relationships with our clients.
Our association with a wide range of organisations and sectors has created an understanding of digital production workflows and quality assurance principles that we believe are second to none.
Auto Docs have an impressive array of high-specification digitisation equipment, as well as several open-source data management software solutions. This end-to-end approach is supported by robust quality control standards and adherence to strict project management procedures to ensure that deadlines are met within budget.
Every day we help organisations like you digitise their archives. From museums, universities, large archives to small personal collections, we provide an accurate & secure digitisation service.
Having your important documents imaged and archived means you:
- can share important records with a global audience
- allow viewing of documents with damaging the originals
- Back-up your records and never lose a file
- Search text within documents
- Make multiple copies of records
We carefully digitise and archive your records: from newspapers to historic documents, we digitise in a clean facility using advanced technology. The end result is a fascinating archive which is fully searchable and globally accessible.
People need no longer travel great distances to your office, library, or museum. Your documents can we accessed by as many or as a few people as you wish. Our historical archiving services have successfully delivered digitised records to museums, universities, and libraries in the UK & beyond.
We have scanned millions of documents. Our clients include Government departments, National & local libraries & archives, Universities, Museums, Publishers Public & Private Corporates and individuals.
Find out more
Contact us to arrange the scanning of your historical documents, allowing global access and ensuring you’ll never need worry about handling or lending the original records.
Call 0141 370 3680
