Book Scanning Services Upto A1 - Destructive & Non-Destructive

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Our professional award winning book scanning services support heritage, businesses and individuals to digitise book collections for preservation, online use or reprinting. Using high-quality Book-Eye book scanners which convert upto A1 in size, with archival scan technology for handling any project book volume size, will can ensure that books remain safe during the digitisation process.

Non-destructive and destructive scanning methods
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert scanned documents
Text Searchable PDF format, to easily search for specific words or phrases
Digital formats include searchable TIFF, JPEG, PDF, MS Word options
Specialist archival scanning for old, fragile and heritage books

Document Scanning Solutions in Oxford UK

Non-Destructive Book Scanning Solutions to Archival TIFF and Online Outputs

Our experienced technicians ensure a 'once only digital scan'. When the digital images are prepared, you are able to take the books away and store securely. Our non-destructive book scanning service is ideal for rare, precious, and valuable books upto A1 in size . Using state-of-the-art Book-Eye overhead scanners with archival book-cradles, books are digitised intact without the worry of bindings becoming untact or damaged. With specialist software books are scanned 24-bit or 16-bit . Digital output include Archival TIFF, JPEG, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.

Destructive Book Scanning Solutions to Word and PDF Online Outputs

Our services offer affordable destructive book scanning, which is perfect if you have multiple copies or able to provide a copy for the scanning process for books upto A3 in size. Sheet-fed fast batch scanning is the most efficient and cost-effective way to convert your books into digital formats.

Our technicians will carefully remove the binding of the book and pages released by guilloting. The individual pages are scanned using an automated sheet-fed scanner. With specialist software books are scanned 24-bit or 16-bit.

Once books are digitised, we can offer options for digital preservation:

Searching large digital archives
Accessing specific items of interest online
Preservation of damage-prone items
Maintaining a record of history

Digital output include Archival TIFF, JPEG, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.

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Heritage Book Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

RARE BOOKS

REGISTERS

NEWSPAPERS

MAGAZINES

LAB BOOKS

PRIVATE DIARIES

PARCHMENT

SCRAPBOOKS

JOURNALS

Manuscript Document Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

MANUSCRIPTS

Optical Character Recognition OCR in Oxfordshire UK

ABBYY OCR

Book Digitisation Case Studies

Our services work with clients within the UK, digitising destructive or non-destructive book volumes upto A1 in size. From 1 book to thousands of archive collections, our highly skilled technicians prepare high quality digital images using a 'White Glove' approach for scanning old, fragile and heritage books from newspapers, diaries, magazines, journals, burial registers, personal records and many specialist books that require careful handling.

Please find below a few case studies from recent projects we have undertaken. If you would like to see further examples of our work, please do contact us on 01865 457000 or email cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com.

Oxfordshire Record Society - Digitisation of Book Archives

The Oxfordshire Record Society was founded in 1919. In 2019, it celebrated 100 years of publishing primary sources for the history of the county of Oxfordshire, and raising awareness and understanding of this vital evidence of the historic county. We support the society with book scanning digitisation for their online publications.

Book Scanning

British, American and Other Naval Motor Boats at War, 1914-1920.

Working closely with ‘Steve Dunn, an accomplished author, with a strong record of revealing aspects of First World War naval history that have been overlooked in popular histories’. (Military History Monthly July 2018) we have been digitising books for online publication and sale.

Steve Dunn

Laboratory Book Scanning

Our services support the ongoing laboratory book scanning of NDCLS's pathology digitisation into evidence proofed PDF files, for the preservation and online use of important human disorders. It is very important that careful book scanning is prepared, to digitise all important details, pull-outs, flip pages and stapled attachments. These are carefully prepared by trained staff to digitise these books.

Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Gunpowder & Glory

Working with our client, digitising a fascinating complex large archive of newspaper cuttings and oversize book scanning, to support a thrilling biography of the brilliant British inventor and daredevil war here, whose efforts saved countless lives during WW1.

Casemate Publishers

Fritillary Journal Publications

The first-ever volume of Fritillary, this represented a new venture for the Society and the Trust. It is still in demand and it has been reprinted so that hard copies are still available. Recently, however, we have had editions scanned and with the use of Optical Character recognition to a high level, we are now able to make a pdf of it available.

The Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire

How Do We Digitise Books?

Working with clients all over the UK, we are regularly asked how we digitise the more complex book volumes that are either damaged or oversized.

Please follow the link to our blog, that is regularly updated with the interesting projects we are working on.

Digitising Oversized Books

Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high resolution planetary scanning for Formats up to DIN A1.

Combined with a motorised book cradle, integrated glass plate and LED illumination; the Bookeye scanner is ideal for capturing bound documents: books, valuable scripts, folders, drawings, plans and much more.

Bookeye Equipment

Our book scanning department holds 5 large scanners, perfect for digitising all manner of books, from corporate to fragile delicate books that require an extremely careful approach.

Our wide format scanners offer a flexible book cradle for digitisation projects. And with a 600dpi optical resolution these are ideal for Archival TIFF outputs or high quality PDF digital files.

Cherwell Business Awards

In September 2022 we won The Cherwell Business Awards 2022 category. The entries were very high and we were absolutely thrilled to be recognised as a leading company worthy of this award.

This award recognises businesses in Cherwell Oxfordshire, so the recognition highlights our professionalism to our clients.