California Microfilm Conversion Company

Digitize Microfilm in California

If you need to digitize microfilm in California, Generation Imaging is here to help. Founded by two experienced, passionate roll film scanning managers, G.I., takes pride in converting microfilm to digital files. G.I. offers low scanning prices and excellent turnover time. Customer service is top-notch, and there is no “high pressure sales team” to upsell services or software.

Generation Imaging has seen it all, literally- from poor, decaying 35mm roll film which smells like vinegar, to pristine new original silver halide 16mm rolls. The scanner operators at G.I. have transferred millions- if not billions- of images over the years from all types of microfilm.

100 feet or 215 feet rolls; ANSI, M-type cartridges. and open spools
16mm and 35mm
Simplex, duplex, duo
Landscape/portrait/comic/cine
Positive and negative
Silver, Diazo and Vesicular film
Bi-tonal output (black-and-white images): TIFF and PDF (both multi-pages)
Grayscale output: uncompressed or compressed TIFF/JPEG; JPEG 2000; PDF (single or multi-page)
Delivery can be by DVDs, external hard drive, USB stick, file transfer, or ftp.

California Microfiche Scanning

Generation Imaging is your one-stop microfiche scanning service for California. Instead of trying to find out how to scan microfiche on your own, Generation Imaging are the experts at scanning microfiche for you.

If you have a need to digitize microfiche in California, Generation Imaging just needs to know what type of microfiche you have. Generation Imaging can help you determine what type of microfiche you have if you are not sure. Microfiche types include COM fiche (computer output media), 16mm or 35mm jacket fiche (strips), step-and-repeat fiche (fixed grid), and other less common types, such as combo fiche, ultra fiche, and rewritable fiche.

Buying a microfiche scanner is very expensive and the cheap microfiche scanners are not automated and are just a small step above a microfiche reader printer. Generation Imaging uses ribbon scanning which is a process which captures all the frames on the microfiche at one time. The scanner operator and quality control department will ensure that all the images are detected and saved out at the best quality.

Do You Have Broken Microfiche or Microfilm Reader Printer in California?

Do you need to fix your reader printer in California? Microfiche/Microfilm reader printers are an old technology, and you may be out of luck, unfortunately. Most companies no longer service their reader printers, and parts are hard to come by. With the used reader printer market ranging in price from around $3000 to $9000, it may be time to consider allowing Generation Imaging to convert your archive into digital images instead of fighting the old machine. Common reader printers are: PrintMaster 10,000, Alos Z, Micro-Image Capture, Minolta MS6000 Mkii, and Minolta RP609Z, and Canon’s microfilm reader printers.

In addition to living with the struggle of maintaining a reader printer, one has to battle the routine of finding the roll/fiche, loading it, hunt and peck for the specific frames, print or save them, and then put the media back in storage. Now, this may have been the system you are accustomed to, but there is a more efficient way: if Generation Imaging digitized your collection- or even just the frequently requested files- you could retrieve the images instantly without hassle. All it takes is a call to get a quote which you could take to your budgeting department or boss. Otherwise, your ability to fulfill the record request may be delayed inefficiently as it may be too hard to get the reader printer fixed.

California Aperture Card Conversion

Do you need to scan an aperture card in California? Generation Imaging is here to help. An aperture card conversion creates a PDF, TIFF, or JPEG of the flat image. Usually aperture cards contain 35mm frames of blueprints, engineering drawings, or maps, although there are 16mm strip variants which have standard documents.

Identifying aperture cards is actually the easiest from all the different types of microform. Apertures are made up of thin cardboard (larger than 6 x 3 inches) with a rectangular image (larger than 2 x 1 inches) pasted in the right side. Some aperture cards have Hollerith punches in them. Hollerith code was used as machine language for PC cards in ancient times, but are still used today with aperture cards. Generation Imaging has the capabilities to read the Hollerith holes, which would create an indexing scheme to name the images. Otherwise, the images would have to be named sequentially or keyed manually by the header of the aperture card.

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