Scanning Your Personal Collections - Digital Preservation

Archiving and Scanning Digitisation at Oxford Duplication Centre

Personal Document Collections Scanning and Digitisation Services

Digitisation for Historical Personal Collections

motion & cine film | audio | video | optical |  photographic film | books | documents  | Scan on Demand | FAQs

Museums and libraries aren’t the only places to find significant collections in need of digital preservation. Individual collectors can curate substantial personal collections just as valuable as those in any museum.

 

From collections of historic artifacts, art, scientific journals, or World War II letters, these valued documents, we can support your collection into the future with digital preservation. Our dedicated professional team can turn your personal collection of historical documents, photos, books, and periodicals into a usable and shareable outputs.

  • Non-destructive and destructive scanning options
  • Digital output formats:  TIFF, searchable PDF, MS Word
  • Specialist scanning for old, fragile and heritage books

The best protection for your private collections of books, diaries, papers, photographs, and prints is to have your archives digitised into easy to access digital formats.

DIGITISATION OF PERSONAL RECORDS, BOOKS, DIARIES AND DOCUMENTS
TO HIGH QUALITY TIFF ARCHIVAL/JPEG/PDF/PDF-OCR

We offer professional personal document and book scanning solutions for private, corporate and heritage clients.

1. TIFF Archival Images, JPEG, Word and PDF Options
2. Book Scanning - Guillotined or Non-Destructive
3. Batch Document Scanning


Please contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com Tel: 01865 457000
to discuss your scanning requirements.
PAGE
SIZE		 600DPI TIFF IMAGES
 DPI
 IMAGE COUNT
1-250+		 IMAGE COUNT
251+		 IMAGE COUNT
1000+
<A3 Personal document scanning for clients requiring high-quality uncompressed TIFF archival digital files. Costed per image plus VAT. 600 0.95 0.75 0.55
A2 600 1.15 0.95 0.75
A1 600 1.35 1.15 0.95
     
PAGE
SIZE		 300DPI JPEG IMAGES DPI
 IMAGE COUNT
1-250+		 IMAGE COUNT
251+		 IMAGE COUNT
1000+
<A3 Personal document scanning for clients requiring high-quality JPEG digital files. Costed per image plus VAT. 300 0.75 0.55 0.35
A2 300 0.95 0.75 0.55
A1 300 1.15 0.95 0.75
     
PAGE
SIZE		 DESTRUCTIVE BOOK SCANNING DPI
 PAGE COUNT
1-250+		 PAGE COUNT
251+		 PAGE COUNT
1000+
>A3 TIFF Archival 600 0.95 0.75 0.55
>A3 JPEG 300 0.75 0.55 0.35
>A3 PDF 300 0.25 0.15 0.05
ADDITIONAL SCANNING SERVICES
Convert TIFF Files to PDF/OCR Searchable File or Word 35.00 30.00 25.00
Convert JPEG or PDF to PDF/OCR Searchable File or Word 35.00 30.00 25.00
Guillotine of Spines from £7.50* 7.50
File or Folder Indexation per Book 1.00
Technical Support. Price per Hour* 35.00
Data Supply using Secure Download Link or USB 10.00
*Due to the nature of bound books, not all digitisation or guillotining is straightforward. Therefore
we may need to apply a service charge on more complex books. We will advise
prior to estimate approval.

  • Rare Photograph Scanning
  • Old Maps and Charts
  • Engineer Drawings
  • Plus Size Scanning
  • Large Document Scanning
  • Paper Records
  • Medium Format and Large Format Film
  • X-Rays and Transparencies
  • Local History Archiving

Our services are highly recommended in Oxfordshire, providing high quality precision photographic and document scanning solutions for all your digital media requirements. With our non destructive scanning solutions we can have your order scanned and returned. You will receive either TIFF, JPEG or PDF files dependant upon your media requirements. We offer resolutions from 150dpi upwards.

HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR DOCUMENT SCANNING VOLUMES

What causes variations are the number of file folders,
fasteners such as binding clips, paperclip, staples, etc, and
unwanted materials in the files such as glossy brochures.
DESCRIPTION QUANTITY
4-Draw Filing Cabinet Ave 4000 pages per drawer
Standard Archive Box Ave 2500 pages
Copy or Banker Box Ave 2000 pages
Transfer or Box File Ave 500 pages
Lever Arch File Ave 500 pages
Foolscape Document Folder Ave 150 pages
Loose Paper Ave 150 pages per inch
Average Photographs Ave 100 per inch

Our offices are open Monday to Thursday 8am-4pm Friday 8am - 3pm.
29 Banbury Road, Kidlington OX5 1AQ. Parking is available at the front of the building or rear car park.

Contact Us 01865 457000 or email cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com