Photograph Albums & Scrapbooks

We use high-resolution flatbed scanners and cameras, offering non-contact capture of your precious photograph albums and scrapbooks. Our equipment can capture individual items or albums as single page amd double-page spreads, creating output formats in TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA) or any other industry-standard image format you may require. We can also create further surrogate files, such as OCR’d multi-page PDFs, MS Word and eBooks.

All files are captured by our highly trained digitisation technicians using overhead, daylight balanced, non-heat producing lighting, before undergoing a formal quality assurance checking procedure. The final step in the process is the delivery of your electronic files by hard drive.

As standard, TWA survey all material prior to any digitisation project being carried out to ensure that it can withstand the scanning process. If there is evidence of fragility, brittleness, and/or mould, or any other signs of damage to your albums and scrapbooks, then recommendations will be made for how to repair and stabilise the content appropriately.

There are many things that need to be taken into consideration when costing your digitisation project, such as:

• Fragility
• The scale of the collection
• Whether items are contained in sleeves
• Whether photographs need to be cleaned

Consequently, it’s impossible to give a definitive answer as to cost, but you can get a rough estimate using our digitisation quote calculator below.

Photographs would usually be removed from their sleeves but it is also possible to digitise them within their albums and we have adjustable book cradles and methods for reducing glare to ensure that the spine is protected and the material is captured clearly with the gutter remaining illuminated and distortion free.