Save space and time retrieving information. Don’t limit your customers’ access to records. We provide a state-of-the-art digital archiving and book scanning service that gives you the flexibility and scope to improve your efficiency and deliver a better service to your customers.
We’ve embraced the digital age and when you find out more, you will too.
Traditional archiving systems are difficult to access, take up inordinate amounts of premium space, and remain susceptible to the dangers of wear and tear, and disaster. Viewtouch digital archiving provides a cost-effective, safe and simple alternative that has been welcomed by a whole host of organisations.
There is no need to limit access to records of public interest. Our state-of-the-art digital archiving and book scanning service gives you the flexibility and scope to improve your efficiency and deliver an improved service to your customers.
Any document up to A1 in size, regardless of whether it is a book or loose sheets, can be scanned in black and white, greyscale or full colour. Here are some examples of documents we scan on behalf of our clients.
- Maps
- Technical drawings
- Books
- Registers
- Bound journals
- Lab notebooks
- Miniature books
- Library archives
- Minute books
- Technical manuals
- Parish records
- Reference books
- Book of Remembrance
- Burial registers
- Deeds and other bound
legal documents
Providing you use a reputable firm, such as Viewtouch, with the right equipment and expertise, even the scanning of ancient books is safe.
Our investment in scanning technology extends to a book scanner – a dedicated piece of equipment that captures images and allows the software to straighten out the curvature of the page so you get a crystal-clear perspective. With its inherent geometrical correction, book scanning can overcome the effect of the crushing of characters and will preserve original distances. The process is successful without removing pages from the bindings or harming them in any way, and uses light that is 100% UV-free and IR-free.
Our fast and direct door-to-door collection service avoids the pitfalls associated with using third-party couriers and ensures your documents arrive safely. The greatest care is taken with all material supplied to us, during transportation (which we will arrange), and in all the handling of books and documents. For clients who prefer the absolute reassurance of onsite archiving, we can archive onsite with our portable scanner.
Once the pages of a book or documents are scanned, we can ‘tidy up’ the images, apply borders, etc., to give clean, legible pages which can then have Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applied to enable full text searching in PDF, HTML, XML or other format. Scanned images can be fully indexed to your requirements and are supplied as JPEG images or in Adobe Acrobat format.