Due to the complexity of aperture card scanning, one of the other crucial elements of any aperture card conversion project is quality control. Whenever microMEDIA Imaging Systems works on a project to convert aperture cards to digital format, we make sure to devote a good amount of time to quality control – there are various idiosyncrasies in dealing with aperture cards that we need to watch for, and it’s always better to fix problems and make any corrections while the images are still easily accessible.
Here are some of the issues we watch for during the quality control process:
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One of the most critical stages of the aperture card scanning process is identifying the metadata – the descriptive information that explains what the microfilm image contains – on each aperture card. This is why aperture card scanning involves much more than just “scanning;” some of the most complex work involves sorting through the old cards to find out exactly what we’re looking at, deciding what is important, and saving the information that needs to be stored for the future.
What is aperture card metadata?
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Identity theft, data breaches, and information security failures have become part of the new vocabulary of modern business. When a company fails to preserve confidential customer information, or allows its competitive secrets to become compromised, that company’s reputation and profitability are greatly damaged. While computer hackers, massive scale data theft, and other “high-tech” types of data breaches tend to get big publicity, one of the leading culprits in data breaches is much older and simpler: paper.
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When clients hire microMEDIA Imaging Systems for an aperture card conversion project, they often have a lot of questions. Especially if the company’s aperture cards have not been in regular use and may no longer be in the best condition. A client might need some explanation of what will be involved with converting these unique documents to digital format.
In general, microMEDIA Imaging Systems uses the following multi-stage process to perform aperture card scanning, but the work involves more than just scanning. Scanning aperture cards and delivering a final digital file requires our team to wear many hats – depending on the age and complexity of the information stored on the cards, we need to serve as detectives, data analysts and research librarians.
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Aperture cards were once one of the most widely used data storage media for engineering drawings, blueprints, and microfilms of newspaper pages. They continue to hold millions of archived images, although many aperture card archives are being converted to digital format.
History of aperture cards
The very first aperture card system as a storage medium was sold by Graphic Microfilm of New England (now DataBank IMX) to Hamilton-Standard (now Hamilton-Sunstrand) in 1949.* Aperture cards are a combination of old-style computer punch cards and microfilm.An aperture card is basically a punch card with an opening where a 35-mm microfilm image (often of an engineering diagram or architectural drawing) is inserted.
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We’ve covered the first 5 of the 10 most popular – and incorrect – myths concerning the paperless office in a previous post. Unfortunately, there are even more myths that are, to this day still spreading. They are preventing companies and individuals all over the world from using digital document imaging to reap the benefits of a paperless office.
Here’s your chance to learn the truth behind the 2nd half of myths concerning the transition to a paperless office. Like the first 5, these 5 pop up in almost every industry and from the largest corporations to the smallest companies. Here are 5 more paperless office myths that are preventing people from using digital document imaging to save time, money and space:
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The adoption of new technologies, new innovations or new ways of doing business can be challenging. When the widespread adoption of those is slowed even further by myths, rumors and poorly founded ideas that challenge can often seem insurmountable. Such is the case with the paperless office, which is currently being held back much more by process issues than any technological capabilities.
Unfortunately for the paperless office, there are 10 myths that have permeated the issue and put a fear into the minds of people who could be reaping the benefits of adopting it. Here are the first 5 of the Top10 Myths of The Paperless Office:
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With advances in technology occurring across all industries almost every day, the promise of the paperless office is closer than ever. With iPads, Kindles, email and extremely high speed internet at all of our fingertips, the need for traditional paper might be gone. Now, small businesses are in the unique position to start reaping the rewards of switching to a paperless office like never before.
Small businesses, as they operate on a smaller scale, have the unique ability to employ digital document imaging to make the switch to a paperless office. The following facts are the top 4 reasons why small businesses should use digital document imaging to cut out the paper, and bring on the benefits of a paperless office.
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If you were to take a poll of a random sampling of businesses around the world as to what their biggest business nightmare situation is, it would most likely be a disastrous data loss of any kind. Whether that loss of data comes in traditional paper form or in electronic form, both are crippling to the business and both need to be planned for and avoided at all costs. Digital document imaging is an amazingly efficient and cost-effective way to do that.
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Watch out Google, you’re officially being targeted by an extremely unlikely source: Germany. That’s right, the German Digital Library plans to make millions of books, films, images and even audio recordings available and accessible online via digital conversion. The good news for the German library and bad news for Google is that already more than 30,000 libraries, museums and existing archives are expected to contribute digitized cultural artifacts.
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