Document Scanning Services: Protectors of the Past

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Business )



ARCHIVING ISSUES

Document scanning services are very useful for archiving purposes, especially of precious historical documents and artifacts.

While desktop scanners can do a pretty good job of document scanning, they are limited to flat, standard-sized documents. Your desktop scanner cannot scan and capture anything that is larger than a bond paper, much less a three dimensional artifact.

Prior to the modern document scanning equipment, there was no way to store and archive documents other than to file them in cabinets. Eventually, as more documents accumulated over time, space became an issue as these valuable archived files cannot be discarded. It was also very difficult to pull out any given records given the volume of papers that you have to sift through.

HISTORICAL VALUE

Document scanning services are also very valuable to libraries, museums and other historical institutes that house precious, historical documents and artifacts that are very fragile as they are very important. People who come in to study these historical archives are not allowed to hold the actual pieces, and use microfilms instead, which is also fairly limited in its archiving functions.

Modern, sophisticated document scanning equipment has made it possible to store and archive huge volumes of papers and artifacts in a very small space. By capturing the document as an digital image file, the data can be stored in any digital storage device for an indefinite period of time.

Moreover, document scanning services capture true to life images without degrading the original. This allows historians and researchers to study the scanned files, without putting at risk the original ones.

If the real one is not possible, document scanning services allows us to get as close as we can to the real thing. This way, we can protect the past and still be able to see proof that they indeed took place.


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