History
The origins of document conversion services company microMEDIA extend back to 1939 when a small typewriter repair company was established in Long Island. It was named LOCAL Business Products. The company sold electric typewriters and office machines. In 1975 a subsidiary was incorporated to offer document conversion services under the name microMEDIA. It serviced the rapidly growing Long Island market in the Defense Industry, Publishing, Cosmetics and Banking.
The current ownership acquired microMEDIA in 1980 and extended the sales area into Manhattan, New Jersey and Connecticut. Major brokerage firms, insurance companies and pharmaceutical houses became clients. Computer assisted retrieval systems were sold to enhance microfilm retrieval. Index files were put on computer databases, speeding the retrieval of documents from microfilm.
In 1982, the company began high-volume data capture offshore. Original documents have never been sent, only micrographic copies or digital images. We have taken advantage of the cost savings offshore expanding our member countries to the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, The Philippines, China and India.
Electronic Imaging
microMEDIA was one of the first document conversion services companies to embrace electronic document imaging. In 1987, the company began marketing electronic imaging systems and image conversion services. We later decided to concentrate on conversion services and, more recently, document hosting on the Internet, both for backfile and day-forward needs.
Our conversion client base has now expanded on a national scale. We pride ourselves on being in the forefront using leading-edge technologies and communications media. Our high speed communication lines, multiple redundant Internet servers and direct client transmission supplement multiple websites. We transmit electronic images off-shore on a daily basis and can convert and index documents within hours of receipt.
microMEDIA was the first document hosting services company certified to perform conversion to EMC's Documentum Imaging System. "microMEDIA's wealth of experience converting archives to an electronic format and their pioneering spirit make it possible to extend Documentum's effectiveness," says Larry Warnock, Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Documentum.
We are vendor independent and interface with almost every imaging software and hardware vendor.