Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services | Multi Award-Winning Specialists

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Our multi-award winning digitisation and archiving services support clients with a comprehensive solution designed to digitise, archive, and ensure invaluable assets are handled with absolute care using a 'white glove' approach. Our state-of-the-art scanning and digital preservation techniques ensure every detail, from faint ink on fragile parchment and manuscripts to rich patterns on textiles are captured and preserved to The National Archive Standards.

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Our services provide clients with state of the art digitisation machinery, expertly converting document media including reports, minutes, diaries, publications, rare parchment, linen and cotton maps, photographs archives and photographic film types to historical books, audio tapes, video tapes and motion film and cine to educational institutions, heritage associations, corporate clients and publication for both private and commercial,  creating bespoke online heritage archives 

No order is too small or large.  Our services support clients from 1 VHS tape to 1000's of historical archives.    Clients include The Royal Society, Blenheim Palace, Oxford University, NHS Trust, Sobell House, Central Government, Local Government to include NDA clients whereby we digitise for famous and historically important events that have happened in the UK.

  • Document and Manuscript Digitisation
  • Books, Diaries, Newspapers, Deeds
  • Microfilm, Slides, Negative and glass plates
  • Video, Magnetic Tape, Motion Film and Rare Formats     
  • Photographs and Ephemera
  • To National Archive and Preservation Standard

Bound Volumes | Fragile Historical Documents  |  Newspapers | Registrars and Ledgers | Laboratory Books | Diary and Magazines | Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks | Photographs | Parchment and Manuscripts | Personnel Records and Reports | Published Books | Index Cards | Bulk Loose Documents | Oversized Maps | Engineering Plans | Artwork | Archive Collections 

Digital output include Archival  10-Bit, Pro-Res, MPEG4 Asset Files, WAV, MP3 Asset Files, TIFF/RAW, JPEG Asset Files, 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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Cultural Heritage Digitisation Scanning Solutions in Oxford UK

Our Heritage Digitisation Services

Document and Manuscript Digitisation

Our specialist document and manuscript digitisation service digitises historical documents into National Archive Standard digital formats. Perfect for the preservation of parchments, registers, manuscripts, letters, and archival papers, easily making them accessible for online viewing.

Books, Diaries, Newspapers, Property Deeds

Our flatbed scanning machinery can carefully digitise fragile books, printed documents, war diaries, old newspapers, parchment curled or straight and deed packs. Media is carefully relaxed and digitised to produce an exact digital replica of the image.  Using National Archive Standards, you can trust our expertise in preparing the highest quality digital outputs required for future preservation. 

Microfilms, Slides, Negatives, and Glass-Plates

Our award-winning photographic film digitisation process for all film types including medium format, transparencies, 35mm, aperture cards, microfilms, glass plates and specialist film types is always an extemely popular department.  Our archive technicians use specialist scanners capable of digitising imagery in the highest quality RAW or TIFF outputs.   

Photographs and Ephemera

With fragile soft handling bulk digtiisation machinery, we can digitise fragile photographs and ephemera with ease, allowing efficient and careful preservation of historical media.

 


Digitising documents, books and maps

Digitising Documents

Working with clients across the UK, we digitise corporate, consumer and heritage document, book and map archives into suitable digital files for online use.

Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high-resolution planetary scanning for fragile books, rare maps, parchment and materials up to DIN A1+.

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Photographic film digitisation services

Digitising Photo Film

Our archive department is equipped with leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent, high-quality digitisation across film formats from 110mm through to glass plate negatives.

Adhering to The National Archives specifications, our services provide leading-quality digitisation with complete confidence.

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Audio and video tape digitisation services

Digitising Audio & Video

Working with leading AWS and Blackmagic conversion processors, our services incorporate audio, video, vinyl and reel formats in both open-spool and closed-tape formats.

Digital files can be supplied in formats including ProRes HQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG-4, AIFF, WAV and MP3, with most other options available upon request.

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Cherwell Business Awards Winner 2024

Cherwell Business Awards

We were thrilled to be recognised as a winner at the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024. The standard of entries was exceptionally high, making this recognition particularly meaningful to our team.

We were also winners of the Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 and finalists in the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023.

About our company

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

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