Many organizations are digitizing their valuable documents including microfiche assets with the help of a document scanning company.

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Microfiche Scanning: Digitization and its Advantages
Many organizations are digitizing their valuable
documents including microfiche assets with the help of
a document scanning company.
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Businesses around the world are now well ahead on the digitization path, scanning and
digitizing their legacy documents. Academic and non-academic organizationsare also
digitizing their valuable documents, and the digitization isaccomplished in most cases
with the help of document scanning companies. When we speak of documents, it is not
only paper documents that are undergoing digitization but microfiche assets as well.
In the present digital era organizations are moving ahead with the processof
convertingthese also into digital copies. Many companies and organizations go for a
hybrid system. They maintain microfiche and microfilm archives while also assembling
digital archives for easier access and use.
Microfilm and microfiche were used as an alternative for storing huge volumes of data
and picture images and also as space saving solutions. They offered a space savings of
98% over paper. This technology dominated the 70s, 80s and even the early 90s. With
the development of technology, however, advanced storage devices that can store data
worth 500 gigabytes to terabytesare available in the market. Moreover, the equipment
required to display and print microfiche images has been neglected in many cases and
become expensive to repair or replace.
Microfiche scanning service is beneficial for libraries, courts, universities, schools, local
governments, police departments and so on.
Advantages of Digitizing Microfiche
New and advanced technology is outshining microfiche and so every organization can
benefit by digitizing their microfiche assets.
 The first and foremost advantage is that digitizing microfiche will help you to keep
a backup of important documents even at the time of any disaster thereby
preventing loss of data.
 Information can be retrieved, printed and distributed within seconds from the
desktop.
 Digitizing microfiche helps offices save their storage space by eliminating
microfiche equipment. The more space that is cleared by digitizing microfiche the
more space employees get to work.
 The cost of maintaining microfiche equipment and supplies can be avoided.
 The digitized copies can be published on websites for the public or interested
parties to view.
For any organization, finding a company that can digitize the microfilm/microfiche data is
the better option. The equipment is quite expensive and the process highly complex;

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therefore the microfilm scanning and conversion are best done by a professional
document scanning and conversion company. It is important to understand their price
scale to ensure that you can afford their service. The time taken to digitize your
microfiche depends on the type of microfiche, the quantity to be digitized and the quality
you require. Usually, these service providers offer complete services. They index the
scanned documents, and include OCR for text searchable PDF files.