Manuscript Scanning | Fragile and Rare Books 

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Our professional  multi-award winning manuscript and journal book scanning services support corporate, heritage and consumer clients, digitising book collections for preservation, online use or reprinting.  Using high-quality Repro-Camera systems, Book-Eye  scanners and contactless scanners which convert upto A1 in size, with archival scan technology for handling any project book volume size, will can ensure even the most fragile books remain safe during the digitisation process.

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 TIFF/RAW, JPEG, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.

Manuscript Scanning Solutions to Archival TIFF/RAW and Online Outputs

Document Scanning Solutions in Oxford UK

Our experienced technicians ensure a 'once only digital scan'. When the digital images are prepared, you are able to take the books away and store securely.  Our non-destructive manuscript and journal book scanning service is ideal for rare, precious, and valuable books upto A1 in siz . Using state-of-the-art Book-Eye overhead scanners with archival book-cradles, books are digitised  intact without the worry of bindings becoming untact or damaged. With specialist software books are scanned 24-bit or 16-bit. Digital output include Archival TIFF/RAW, JPEG, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.

*Due to the nature of bound books, not all digitisation is straightforward. Therefore
we may need to apply a service charge on more complex books. We will advise prior to estimate approval.

Publication Book Scanning Oxford UK

PUBLISHED

Heritage Book Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

RARE BOOKS

Register Scanning Oxfordshire UK

REGISTERS

Document Scanning in Oxfordshire UK

NEWSPAPERS

Magazine Scanning Oxfordshire UK

MAGAZINES

Labbook Digitisation Services Oxford

LAB BOOKS

Diary Scanning Services Oxfordshire UK

PRIVATE DIARIES

Parchment Legal Document Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

PARCHMENT

Family Scrapbook Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

SCRAPBOOKS

Parchment Legal Document Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

JOURNALS

Manuscript Document Scanning Services in Oxfordshire UK

MANUSCRIPTS 

Optical Character Recognition OCR in Oxfordshire UK

ABBYY OCR


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