Archive and Heritage Collections  | Oxford UK 

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

Oxford Duplication offer multi-award winning 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.

Consultation Required | Contact 01865 457000

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.

Heritage Archive Document Scanning in Oxford UK
Cherwell Business Awards Winner 2022

Archive Equipment 

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






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.

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