Archive and Heritage Collections  | Oxford UK 

motion & cine film | audio | video | optical |  photographic film | books | documents  

Welcome to our heritage and archive page.  Oxford Duplication offer high-end expertise in  digitally converting archives and heritage projects, which incorporate audio, video and motion film, historic books and journals, photographic albums upto A1, publications, specialist books and historical archives for digital preservation to electronic archives.

Our services are expansive and support clients from family archives to large scale projects.  Regardless of the size of the archive and condition, our experienced team of engineers and archive technicians, combined with National Archive Standard machinery for all types of conversion, we can offer comprehensive support for all projects.   

Our team are highly experienced in scanning fragile and rare orders, working with Blenheim Palace, Jersey Heritage, Oxford University to name a few, digitising all manner of complex archives dating back to the 16th Century to present times.    

Please contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com or call our office: 01865 457000

Heritage Archive Document Scanning in Oxford UK

Museums, Libraries and Archives | Digitisation of Archives to Prevent Physical Deterioration

NHS & Healthcare | Pharmaceutical | Local Government | Libraries & Museums | Educational Sectors  | Engineering & Nuclear | Heritage Trusts | Audio-Visual Production Houses | Automotive | Charities | Housing Associations | Private Archives | Consumer Clients

 With technnical equipment that can cater for documents upto A0, we can provide a service that is on time, on budget and always supportive of our clients needs. Supporting clients with all methods of digital capture, our services offer all formats from 10-bit AVI to Pro-Res 422 HQ to document and photographic formats TIFF, JPEG, PDF with OCR. With resolution upto 1200dpi to suit the archive project we can support all client orders from 1 box file to 1000's of archives.

Guided Mixed Media Price Per Archive Box  | Consultation Required

Our specialist  digitisation technicians have over a decade of experience in the digitisation of archive collections, supporting clients with complex project support as they turn your archives into digital output files.  We offer National Archive Standard outputs TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA) with complimentary surrogate files; OCR/PDFs, MS Word and eBooks.

With specialist overhead scanning equipment, photographic film scanners,  magnetic  tapes and motion film reels, our services can capture in great detail and depth, old and fragile material of any media. With Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing, your archives will be fully searchable for bespoke indexing and keywords .

     With most mixed archive orders, we calculate how many boxes, storage bags or lever arch box files there are and multiply by the cost per box. Regardless of the media, which can include a mixed media of photographic film, photographs, documents, books, diaries, maps, pamplets, parchment, floppy disketts etc.

Cherwell Business Awards Winner 2022

Archive Equipment 

We have an impressive range of digitisation equipment to support all document projects and archives






Digitising Document and Books

Digitising Documents

Working with clients all over the UK, we are regularly asked how we digitise all the projects that are prepared in our offices.  

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

Photographic Film Digitisation Services in Oxford UK

Digitising Photo Film

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.

Broadcast Audio-Video Tape Digitisation in Oxford UK

Digitising AV Orders 

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 Winner 2022

Cherwell Business Awards

In September 2022 we won The Cherwell Business Awards category.  The entries were extremely 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 in this sector. 

Our offices are open Monday to Thursday 8am-4pm Friday 8am - 3pm

Our offices and large customer parking are located at the back of our premise, 29b Rear Part Banbury Road, Kidlington OX5 1AQ, behind the large green building attached, opposite Benmead Road.

Contact Us 01865 457000 or email cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com