Aperture Card Scanning Services

Aperture cards are another document archiving method similar to microfiche which have been used for the past 30 years mainly by engineering companies to hold their technical drawings on. These aperture cards each hold a high resolution slide image which often contains intricate details. Aperture card scanning is an ideal way of preserving these images for the long term.

Aperture cards are often stored away in files or drawers and gather up over time as more drawings are archived this way. They are similar to microfilm and microfiche they are not the most convenient method of storage and finding the one aperture card you require among these is not always straight forward!

Now that we have moved into a digital age it makes more sense to have all documents available electronically for ease of access and secure backup.

By scanning and digitising aperture cards into a usable, convenient electronic format such as TIFF, PDF, JPEG or any other preferred electronic file type as this offers many advantages.

Benefits of Aperture card scanning

• No more searching through stacks of aperture cards to find that one technical drawing
  
  
• Documents kept on the aperture cards are safely backed up electronically
  
  
• Files can be put on the local network to make them accessible to relevant departments and associated staff
  
  
• These documents can be accessed off-site securely online and also emailed, printed or copied if required
  
  
• Damage to any cards will mean an electronic copy is still available
  
  

The Aperture card scanning process

Firstly the images from the aperture cards are scanned in and viewed on-screen. These are checked by our quality control department to ensure the final scanned images are as clear as possible and any image enhancement work is done to bring out the highest possible quality from the aperture card image so it will be suitable for both viewing on-screen and forprinting to scale afterwards.

Once this scanning stage is complete, the scanned images from the cards are converted into whichever format you require such as TIFF, PDF or JPEG. The Aperture cards are then indexed exactly as required by the client.

These are some details the aperture card files are often indexed by:

• Drawing reference number
• Title of drawing
• Client name
• Date

The scanned images are written to CD and any of the images contained on the disk can be copied to a computer, a network and printed or viewed in any manner they prefer.

We can also provide a user friendly image viewer software which holds all of the scanned images, includes text searchable features and a simple, user friendly interface.

Call Pearl Scan on 0161 832 7991 for more information or get a FREE aperture card scanning quote.