Microfilm & Microfiche

Microfilming was the traditional method of document archival; a tried and tested method of miniaturising documents and drawings onto microfilm or microfiche to save on valuable storage space with the following benefits:

Technology Proof Highly resilient Eye readable Proven media

Extremely long life Legally admissible Low cost Space saving

Microfilm & Microfiche Scanning

Many companies hold large document archives on microfilm or microfiche, and often find it cumbersome and problematic to locate and view the documents.  Images-on-Line, based in Crawley West Sussex, can scan the microfilms to create a digital library with all of the advantages of storing documents electronically.  The scanned document images can then be indexed, and treated in the same way as scanned paper documents, with document retrieval software on CD, or as images to be used in your existing Electronic Document Management (EDM) system.

Standard A4 office documents are usually stored on 16mm roll film, either in cartridges, jackets, or microfiche.  Images-on-Line utilise high quality equipment to handle each different type of microfilm and microfiche to ensure that the scanned image is always of the highest quality achievable.

Many companies have generated large microfilm or microfiche document archives over time and in many cases it would be impractical to digitise the entire archive. In these instances Images-on-Line would suggest our storage facility combined with the on-demand service to save the need for maintaining a microfilm facility in-house.

Images-on-Line can also scan 35mm roll film and aperture cards, which are most frequently used to store microfilmed drawings.

If you already have a microfilm or microfiche library (whether roll film, 35mm aperture cards, or jackets)  Images-on-Line is able to scan and digitise it to give all the benefits of scanned images to the end user. This saves the customer the cost of maintaining a microfilm-based or microfiche-based technology.

Images-on-Line can supply a full range of machines, from the simple microfilm reader to the latest generation of digital printers, along with consumables for any microfilm system currently on the market.

Our advanced production software provides a number of methods to enhance the appearance of the original. Deskew, straightens the image, Despeckle, removes random noise (specs) from the original image, Character Enhancement, improves the quality of scanned images, particularly beneficial for handwriting, signatures and dot matrix type fonts on multi-part documents.

Files can also be enhanced digitally and output to microfilm, which is especially useful if your records are mission critical and or require indefinite long term low cost storage, with the full assurance that they will be able to retrieve and view the data long into the future.

Microfilm Scan-on-demand Facility

For the cost effective microfilm scan-on-demand facility, microfilms requested by e-mail, fax or telephone by registered users, are manually retrieved from storage, scanned and made available via a secure password protected Internet connection. From your PC you are then able to view, manipulate, print, fax, export and e-mail 24 hours per day.