Rendering wide-format aerial film digitally is no simple task – and required inventing a new high-powered scanner to do the job By Brad Kvederis High-precision photography represents a unique anomaly in the digital age: one of the rare instances in which the modern, electronic state of the art sometimes struggles to keep up with its […]
From the Summer Issue of the NIRMA Online Magazine As Record Managers, you are very familiar that records come in all types of formats, sizes, densities, colors, and more. And while most are now created with a digital backup, there are still many documents on old analog file types. For the last two decades, the […]
Fastest aerial film conversion scanner ever from Digital Check Corp.’s microfilm division Meridian, ID, March 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apex by nextScan™ is a revolutionary film scanner for processing aerial and other large format film. Over the last two years, nextScan — the microfilm conversion division of Digital Check Corp. — has been working […]
A recent installation of a FlexView 300 at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) has tremendously helped technicians increase microfilm scanning output. Records indicate that 207 microfilm rolls were scanned in November 2021 compared to 28 microfilm rolls scanned in November 2020. Learn more from the HMML article.
Beginning in 1998, with only five employees, FamilySearch set out to digitize their microfilm collection, which was estimated to take 50 years. At that time, nextScan was not even in business. Over the last 20 years, not only was nextScan formed, introduced the Eclipse, and has lead the advancement of high-speed scanning technology which has […]
Meridian, ID, July 8, 2021 – NextScan, the high-speed microfilm conversion scanner division of Digital Check has released the Eclipse® 2000, the fastest microfilm conversion scanner in the world, capable of scanning speeds up to 2,000 frames of microfilm per minute. Fine-tuned mechanics and improved data bandwidth give the new model a more than 60 […]
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Overcome Microfiche Challenges
Overcome Microfiche Challenges Published Inside NIRMA Magazine Summer Edition 2021By Matt Anderson, VP of Sales & Marketing – nextScan & ST Imaging While fiche is an excellent medium for long term storage of documents and files, retrieving the contained information can be challenging. Beyond the difficult nature of the medium, the three unique challenges microfiche presents […]
Turn Microfilm to Digital Files with nextScan’s Microfilm Conversion Scanners [Infographic] How nextScan® Streamlines the Microfilm to Digital Conversion Process… While all microfilm scanners turn microfilm to digital, the technology employed differs greatly in terms of capabilities, performance, and reliability. As the microfilm archive supervisor, it is up to you to guarantee security and eliminate […]
Richard Wilson, Business Development Manager at DatacomIT (Australia) shares a glimpse into how their microfilm digitzation operations are performed using the Eclipse microfilm conversion scanners. Mr. Wilson describes how ribbon scanning has revolutionized microfilm image capture, and why it is a vital proponent of a successful microfilm conversion operation. An experienced operator joins Mr. Wilson […]
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Defining Microfilm “Production Scanner”
Defining Microfilm “Production Scanner” Lately there has been a lot of talk about “Production” scanners within the microfilm market, but what does that actually mean? According to Isausa, inc. President Manuel Bulwa, “Document capture industry experts share a general consensus around the concept of “Production” level status as an elusive threshold that separates low to […]