microMEDIA’s services for books that are fragile and can't be unbound.

While it may be physically possible to guillotine or disassemble bound materials to scan using lower-cost automatic page feeding, there are important archival and legal reasons that vital documents may have to be individually handled.

Since many historical books are extremely valuable or cannot be legally removed from their premises, we specialize in onsite book digitization for archival conversion.  microMEDIA installs a mini-network at our client’s site that is independent from the client system. We bring in technicians, scanners, quality control stations, indexing stations and a centralized database to organize projects for bound documents.

We convert fragile archival documents and bound books with meticulous professional handling to maintain document integrity. microMEDIA has been processing books for more than 20 years. Depending upon the condition of the documents, we go directly to digital form or microfilm the items and then scan the film. Our services are utilized by leading libraries, archives and universities.

Since 1975, we have conducted many document conversions within the categories below as well as other projects such as Director’s Minutes, Catalogs, Photographs, Technical Reports, Brochures, etc.

Rare Books

We utilize custom Book Scanners that capture all images including tightly bound book gutter information. Volumes are carefully inventoried, monitored and handled to preserve their integrity. When imaging is done onsite, we work hand-in-hand with our customer’s custodians of the volumes.

Laboratory Notebooks

Sewn notebooks must be kept intact in order to evidence the sequence and dates of research. Millions of dollars may be at stake if a pharmaceutical house or research laboratory is unable to demonstrate that the records have not been tampered. We typically convert notebooks with pages two-up to reduce the cost of individual page scanning.

Historical Vital Records

Older governmental books and records, such as Births, Deaths, Marriages, Land Records, etc. were often recorded in large permanently bound archival libers. They must be scanned within the public buildings in which they reside.