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Digitisation Services

Data Capture

Capture your data, ensuring the rich detail is preserved ready for making your archives fully searchable.

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Capturing your Data

Capturing your content is a vital step in ensuring optimum control of your data with full searchability. Either through handwritten transcription or Optical Character Recognition (OCR), our specialist technicians are on hand to ensure that nothing is lost.

After converting your data, we can make this accessible online by importing to PastView, or your own collection management system.

Audio Visual Transcription

Data Entry

Handwritten Text Recognition

Handwritten Transcription

Optical Character Recognition

Data capture in action

Explore some working examples of exactly what data can be captured from your items and how.

35mm Slides and Film Strips

Create a digital file containing important details relating to each frame, strip or container, such as slide numbers, dates and descriptions.

Photographic Collections

Recording all important information either on the front or reverse of photographs, envelopes or containers in order to enhance accessibility.

Registers

Transcribing handwritten records to digital and linking entries to the corresponding pages to enable keyword searching and enhanced accessibility.

Index cross-referencing

Mapping photographs, plates or slides to their original handwritten or typed index, providing key information to map back to the original image.

Aperture cards

Taking handwritten or typed information on the front or back of an image and reproducing digitally to aid keyword searches and accessibility.

Glass Plate Negatives

Taking key information from plates, envelopes or containers to enable keyword searches and providing digital index mapping back to the physical item.

Minute Books, Diaries and Letters

Transcribing handwritten extracts and full page documents, editing, migrating and enabling keyword searches and enhancing accessibility.

Typed Text to Digital

Using technology to recognise text in multiple languages contained within documents, and converting to digital format for searching and access.

Automatic Audio Transcription

Turning audio files into typed, searchable text, identifying speakers, time stamping words and making content fully identifiable and searchable.

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