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Legacy format scanning

Dust off your data for easier sharing and decision-making

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Service covered by BS 4971 Conservation and Care of Archive Library Collections

A team trained in preparing, handling and scanning legacy formats

Specialist technology: flatbed, microfilm, overhead and photo scanners

Easily search within your scanned document, thanks to optical character recognition (OCR)

Documents scanned to BS 10008 standards: Legal Admissibility of Electronic Information

The basics How it works

If you think information stored on older formats like microfilm, microfiche, old photographs, historical records or delicate documents from the archives can’t be scanned, think again. We’re highly experienced in the processes needed to capture these items on screen, from gentle cleaning to remove dust and mould, to the use of specialist scanning equipment and post-processing techniques to improve clarity. Our experienced staff operate to BS 4971 standards: Conservation and Care of Archive Library Collections; and are screened to BS7858 security standards.

The OASIS difference Why choose map and plan scanning from OASIS?

Digitise information, securely

Our trained, security-vetted staff will collect your legacy format information in high-security, GPS-tracked vehicles to be scanned at our specialist premises.

Responsive service

We’re big enough to be trusted by everyone from household names to public services, but we don’t have the cumbersome internal structures of the very largest suppliers.

In safe hands

We’re trusted by 11,500 customers. We have every security feature, ISO, and British Standard certification you’d expect, including all scanning facilities covered by BS 10008.

Time savings for your team

Where possible, we apply metadata and OCR to your digitised assets so you don’t have to spend hours searching for the relevant data.

An eye for quality

Our team checks for clarity, completeness and legibility of faded text – and rescans anything substandard, with adjusted settings.

One partner, zero stress

Outsource your end-to-end records management to Europe’s largest privately owned information management supplier, from storage to scanning to digital technologies.

Scanning Convert reams of paper into stacks of value with our specialist scanning services

One page or one million, files, books or blueprints, our technology and team can scan it all.

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