Cultural Heritage Archive Scanning and Digitisation UK

Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services | Multi Award-Winning Specialists

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Our muti-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.

  • 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 | 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.

Document Scanning Solutions in Oxford UK

Supporting Clients with Bespoke Digitisation Services within the Library, Museum and Archive Sectors

Our technicians are trainined using a'white glove' approach to ensure the complete limitation of risk of damage to the orders we receive.     

Highly recommended in Oxfordshire, UK and Europe. We are one of the leading digitisation, scanning and archive specialists holding multi-award winning testimonials from UCL London, University of Oxford, B4 Business, The Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Blenheim Palace, Aston Martin.  So you can trust our expertise on handling your cultural media with confidence.

Benefits of Heritage Digitisation by Preserving through Scanning

The digitisation of heritage and historical archives ensures that not only the past is preserved but that the media presented for media can be retained, preserved and viewed with mimimum damage. 

  •  Digitisation is important to convert physical collections into digital formats, enabling them to be accessible to a wider audience who can explore and connect with the past anywhere throughout the world.  
  •  Creating digital copies, especially fragile items will mitigate the risk of damage from handling and environmental factors
  •  In the tragic event of a disaster, such as fire or flood, digital copies can provide an invaluable backup.
  • Non-Destructive Book Scanning
  • Non-Destructive A3 Book Scanning
  • 78's, BBC Transcription Discs and Vinyls 
  • Rare Acetate Transcription BBC 78rpm Discs in Oxford UK
  • Contactless Flatbed Scanning upto A0+ 
  • Heritage Artwork Scanning to A0

 

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.

  • Photographic Film Types
  • Photographic Film Digitisation Services UK
  • Broadcast AV Tape Digitisation
  • Broadcast Tape Digitisation in Oxford UK
  • Photographs & Ephemera 
  • Photographs and Ephemera Digitisation Services Oxford UK

 


Digitising Document and Books

Digitising Documents

Working with clients all over 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 delicate books and rare maps, parchment or materials  up to DIN A1+.   

Photographic Film Digitisation Services in Oxford UK

Digitising Photo Film

Our archive department is equipped with the leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent and high quality digitistion of all film type formats from 110mm to glass plate negatives.

Adhering to The National Archives Specifications, our  services are both leading and award winning, ensuring complete confidence. 

Broadcast Audio-Video Tape Digitisation in Oxford UK

Digitising Audio-Video 

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

Digital file formats can support clients with Pro-ResHQ, 10-bit AVI,  MPEG4, AIFF, WAV, MP3, with most other options available upon request.       

Cherwell Business Awards Winner 2022

Cherwell Business Awards

The Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024 Winner. The entries were very high and we were absolutely thrilled to be recognised as a leading company worthy of this award.

The Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 Winner. The Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023 Finalist. 


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