Digital Preservation
Guides & Resources
Costco Photo Is Gone—Here’s the Better Way to Digitize Your Memories
For years, families searched for Costco photo when they needed prints made, slides scanned, or old home videos converted to digital. Costco built a reputation on convenience and low prices—and many people trusted them with meaningful...
Mini DV Tape Player: How to Watch MiniDV Tapes Today
If you recently found a collection of MiniDV tapes, your first question is probably simple: What can I use to play them? Unfortunately, you cannot insert a MiniDV tape into a VHS player, DVD player...
Best Digitizing Services: How to Preserve Photos, Tapes, and Film
Many families have valuable memories stored on aging media formats such as printed photographs, VHS tapes, camcorder tapes, and film reels. Unfortunately, these formats were never designed to last forever. Digitizing services convert these physical...
Engineering Drawing Scanning Services: Modernizing Technical Archives
Engineering firms, manufacturers, construction companies, utilities, and government agencies often maintain decades of oversized technical drawings stored in flat files, archive rooms, tubes, and storage warehouses. These records frequently contain critical operational and historical information,...
What Is Backfile Scanning?
Many organizations have decades of archived paper records stored in filing cabinets, warehouses, offsite storage facilities, and archive rooms. While these records may contain valuable operational, legal, financial, and historical information, retrieving them is often...
OCR Conversion: How Businesses Make Paper Searchable
Many organizations have already scanned paper records into PDFs or image files. Unfortunately, scanned files alone often create a new problem: The information still cannot be searched easily. Without OCR technology, employees may still need...
What Is Document Imaging?
Organizations across every industry are modernizing paper archives to improve: accessibility storage efficiency disaster recovery future technology readiness One of the most important components of this transformation is document imaging. From government agencies and law...
Backup and Disaster Recovery: Protecting Critical Records and Archives
Every organization depends on information. From legal documents and medical records to engineering drawings, financial files, permits, and historical archives, records are essential to: daily operations regulatory compliance long-term continuity Unfortunately, many businesses and government...
Microfilm Scanning: Modernizing Historical Archives
For decades, microfilm was considered one of the most reliable ways to preserve important records. Governments, libraries, hospitals, newspapers, engineering firms, and businesses stored millions of documents on rolls of film to: reduce physical storage...
Medical Records Digitization Guide: Modernizing Healthcare Archives
Healthcare organizations generate enormous volumes of records every day. From patient charts and intake forms to insurance documents and historical medical files, physical paper records can quickly overwhelm storage systems while slowing retrieval times and...
Records Management: The Complete Guide to Modernizing Physical Archives
For decades, organizations have accumulated massive quantities of paper files, banker’s boxes, engineering drawings, medical records, microfilm, DVDs, and other physical archives. Unfortunately, many businesses and government agencies now struggle to: retrieve information quickly protect...