Guide to Old Newspaper Scanning with Different Scanner Types

Here at eRecordsUSA, we can scan any type of image, film, or paper. We are experts in digitizing your old and most fragile items. Old newspaper Scanning in one of our expertise.

We have been trusted to digitize newspapers for libraries, archivists, genealogists, universities, schools, various city, county, and federal organizations, like the National Park Service. From old letters to newspapers, documents, maps, posters, brochures, books, we’ve done it all. Old letters and newspapers are some of the more common media types we get.

Old Newspaper Scanning

Old Newspaper Scanning is the process of converting old newspapers that survive in analog form into digital images that can be called newspaper digitization.

The most common analog forms for old newspapers are paper and microfilm. The newspapers in the paper formats, are many times found in bound volumes, which preserve the same, and we are glad to confirm, we can assist in digitizing such large bound volumes, without destroying the bindings, and still capturing the entire content.

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Old Newspaper Scanning is an extremely specialized field, requiring extensive experience in handling such delicate fragile, and historically priceless original newspapers. Such old newspapers, documents, letters, envelops, certificates, drawings, craft books, etc come in a variety of shapes, conditions, and bindings.

Each set of old newspapers archival collection is unique and such requiring careful review before any digitization project is initiated. We are proud to confirm, that we have successfully completed many similar old newspaper scanning projects as far dated hundred of years old. Click on these sample scan example;

Although highly specialized, most of the time, old newspaper scanning, still is an essential service, to ensure such important old newspapers are preserved for all times to come, and specially protected from natural deterioration and/ or any natural, or man-made calamities.

With the fires, hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes becoming daily events, it is imperative such old newspapers loose or bound are digitally preserved. Once all old newspapers are archived digitally they live forever and become easily accessible for all times to come.

With over a decade of experience, eRecordsUSA specializes in document scanning services, old newspaper scanning of all types, sizes, and ages. We have the capacity to scan a large volume of old newspapers, ensuring you will receive your digitized versions scanned at archival quality, professional scan resolution and file formats meeting with your needs.

Based on the eventual purpose & customer requirements, we typically output scanned books to PDF files or TIFF, JPEG image files. We work with many printers, publishers, librarians, archivists, genealogists, and content writers to assist them with our archival book scanning services.

After Old newspaper Scanning, you can back them up to Protect and Safely Store Your Files.

Some Scanner Types for Old Newspaper Scanning

eRecordsUSA utilizes a variety of professional scanners and scanning techniques to get the best results, based on the nature of the content, page size, book weight, condition of the pages & binding, paper-type, type of the binding, margins at the spine, content layout, one side or both sided content, and many more similar trivial things.

Did you know, very high glossy content or pages with golden or silver embossing, special inks, bleed through pages need special handling?

All of the above and many similar small specifics are considered when deciding the type of equipment to be used, to digitize. Some of the commonly used book scanners are overhead planetary, flat-bed, book edge, v-cradle, or even sheet-fed.

eRecordsUSA can assist in a variety of historical digitizing for a variety of documents and books, some of them include, handwritten personal journals, school notes, study materials, certificates, artwork, paintings, letters, postcards, research papers, thesis, college notebooks, personal notes, registers, calender books, executive planners, yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, photos, photo albums, and many other such personal items.

Lab notebooks, research books, scrapbooks, ledger books, deeds, technical manuals, school yearbooks, bound newspaper volumes, artbooks, rare & fragile books, magazine, catalogs, bibles, vital records, historical archives, design books, cartoon books, drawing books, city & county records, sacramental registers for births, matrimonial & baptismal registers, burial records, cemetery record books, citation- cemetery records books, interment cards, account books, map books, and many many more types.

Why Choose eRecordsUSA for Old Newspaper Scanning Service Needs?

Supporting small & large businesses & individuals, fortune 500 companies & government agencies.
Capacity & Capability to handle digitizing old newspapers project of any size & complexity.
We operate a state of the art conversion center in Fremont, CA, where all the work will be performed.
We use only the top of the line hardware and software for old newspaper scanning projects.
Large capacity to process thousands of images a day, including books, paper files & large drawings.
Successfully completed every project to the entire satisfaction of our customers without exception.
A full “chain of custody”- from the time the files are pickup to the return of the original & scans.
Professional & Experienced Operators trained to handle delicate and fragile drawings.
Extremely large & over-sized books,  large format,  delicate & fragile documents. No Problem!

Feel free to reach out to us here with any questions that you may have about the old newspaper scanning, or call us at 510.900.8800, Monday through Friday, between 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. Allow eRecordsUSA to assist you with old newspaper scanning and preserving your precious books. Don’t forget to ask about our exiting & past clients, you will be amazed to hear about them.

Large Format Document Scanning Services

eRecordsUSA gives amazing large format document scanning, change of your maps, drawings, diagrams, plan sets , etc. to digital format. Our Extensive large format document scanning services and imaging services will have your physical printed version expansive arrangement reports changed over into an electronic organization of your decision rapidly and helpfully, immensely enhancing data openness and upgrading your fiasco recuperation arrangement.

Large Format Document Scanning Services

eRecordsUSA has the accompanying large format document scanning abilities:

  • We can scan large format paper documents of any type
  • We can scan documents OF ANY LENGTH
  • We can scan all document sizes including A, B, C, D, E, J and larger
  • We can scan large-format images with high DPI if requested

eRecordsUSA can scan a variety of Large Format Document Types, a few of them are listed here below

As-Builts, Guide Books, Form Maps, Bundle Maps, Utility Maps, Floor Arrangements, Building Arrangements, Rises Inside Outlines, Mechanical Cross-Segments, Railways, Procedure Stream Graphs, Seismic Information Funneling Drawings, Well Area Drawings PCBs and Circuit Board Plans, Electronic Outlines, Daily papers, Maps and so on

eRecordsUSA work most recent arrangement archive examining frameworks to deliver amazing pictures of arrangements and reports. Report can be checked in Bi-tonal (B&W), Dark Scale, or Full Shading and the yield can be either in TIFF, JPEG or PDF, as asked.

Every arrangement or drawing is referenced with proper data, for example, drawing number and correction; venture number and name; improvement application number. For any associations utilizing Archive Administration Frameworks , the metadata can be given in any configuration mapped to your info fields. Pictures and metadata can be provide on a DVD, Album, Convenient Hard Commute, or conveyed by means of Secure FTP Association.

Are you are in need of Document Scanning Services or Large Format Document Scanning Services and if you would like to receive a free price quote for your project? Mail [email protected] or Call +1.855.722.6669.

Lab Notebook, Scientific Notebook Scanning to Protect your Research !

eRecordsUSA, assists in converting lab notebooks to secure digital files provides disaster recovery protection of your priceless research. We have processed thousands of Lab Scientific Notebooks, securely and confidentially, and service customers from all over the country. eRecordsUSA specializes in scientific notebook scanning, with decades of experience and professional equipment, and having digitized thousand of  scientific notebooks over the years, are proud to say, that our scan quality is unmatched, and the best in the industry. 

Lab scientific notebook scanning for Biotech  & Scientific Research organizations requires a unique approach and specialized professional book scanners designed to handle the curvature of text near the spine. A normal desktop flatbed scanner requires the user to press down on the spine to get a clean image, which could very easily damage the spine and bindings of the laboratory notebook.

Protect your patents. Protect your research

Protect your patents by scanning lab notebooks and converting the pages to digital images. By bringing these into digital format, you can easily keep track of who has accessed what lab notebooks, how long they were viewed for, any edits or changes that were made, as well as the ability to have multiple people access the same lab notebook at the same time.

Laboratory scientific notebook scanning archiving requires a unique approach. eRecordsUSA’s specialized book scanners are specifically designed to handle the curvature of text near the lab notebook’s spine, ensuring the integrity of data capture, while maximizing the scanned image quality.

Why Is Lab Notebook Scanning Is So Important & Why Cant Wait ?

Disaster Recovery – In a lab or any other research setting, there is always at least a minimal risk that your notes could be lost, damaged or even stolen. One accident in the lab and all that you have worked for could be lost.
At eRecordsUSA, we have the document scanning technology necessary to deliver crisp and clear electronic copies of your lab notes that are identical to the originals.

Legal Safeguards – Your research is your intellectual property. To protect this property, publish your findings and to apply for patents, you will likely need to provide proof of your research. Lab notebook scanning services can provide professional electronic research notes that can easily be shared with the appropriate organizations.

Improved Functionality – Your entire research institution can benefit from our lab notebook digitization services. If you collaborate with other researchers in your organization, you can quickly and conveniently share notes with one another without having to work without your own notes

There are many reasons and benefits to digitize laboratory scientific notebooks.For more information on notebook Scanning Services, please Contact Us for a free estimate. or Call us at (510) 900-8800.

Survey Form Scanning Services

eRecordsUSA has many years of experience in survey form scanning service, processing returned surveys and customer feedback forms to produce results and statistics straight from the returned data. By scanning and capturing the completed data from these forms using our advanced data capture technology it enables us to gather quick results which is not normally obtained through manual data entry.

Survey Form Scanning Services

Gathering data from returned feedback surveys

We can collect your forms for survey form scanning services in bulk straight from your office and bring this back to our scanning bureau.  We carry out the scanning using our high quality, high speed industry scanners to produce electronic images from the original forms. Once this is completed we setup our data capture template which is especially designed specifically for each form layout and data types and all information such as tick boxes, numbers, crosses and circles are processed. Written text is also captured and entered if necessary while our data capture staff carry out quality control checks over this data to ensure it is correct. At our survey form scanning services, we have staff check over the forms results as they are being processed we offer a 99.95% accuracy rate which is better than the long winded manual data entry process as well as much faster.

For any offline data entry process, we Double Entry Technique.  This method has the following steps:

>> Same set of Data Entry done by two different operators

>> Data Entry of both the operators is compared by means of specialized computer applications.

>> Errors in data entry (or we can call them mismatches) are highlighted by the application.

>> Mismatches in data entry are verified with the original source material and corrections are made by Quality Control personnel.

>> The output of data entry given by Quality Control personnel is audited by the Auditor

>> Final dispatch is then made to the client.

Using the above survey form scanning methods and based on input quality we can assure you data entry quality between 99% to 100% accuracy.

eRecordsUSA is specialized in providing Document Scanning service, Document Imaging Service, Document Digitizing Services, Blueprint Scanning Service, Document Archival Service, Document Archiving Service and more. Would you like to receive a free quote for Survey Form Scanning Services? Call +1.510.900.8800 or eMail us.

Flat Bed Large Format Document Scanning, A2 Scanning, Scan size 18″ x 25”

eRecordsUSA now offering large format document scanning, Large Format Flat Bed, Glass Top Scanning, for demanding scanning applications in a wide range of markets, We can  scan just about anything: from business cards to diagrams in A2 format, books, newspapers, maps, bound documents and more

  1. Newspapers, Periodicals, Tabloids, Catalogs and magazines Scanning
  2. Large Format Books Scanning
  3. Bound and Stapled Documents Scanning
  4. Maps e.g. Road Maps and Street Maps Scanning
  5. Photographs, Canvas Scanning, upto size 17.7″ x 25”
  6. Paper board Scanning as e.g. graphical designs, advertisements on boards.
  7. School Notebooks, Year Books, Sketch Books, Color Painting Scanning
  8. School Art Work, large format Scanning

Large Format Flat Bed Scanning, Canvas Scanning

Flat Bed Scanning Capability, Large Format Document Scanning, Document Specifications

  • Maximum Document Size : 25 x 17.7 inches (635 x 420 mm)
  • Scan Width: Up to 25 inches (635 mm)
  • Scan Length: Up to 17.7 inches (450 mm)
  • Optical Resolution : 600 x 1200 dpi
  • Resolution : 150 – 1200 dpi, available in 1-dpi steps

For a no obligation and free estimate for large format document scanning, and to discover how we can assist you with Flat bed Wide/ Large Format  Scanning Services or for pricing on the same, please Contact Us for a free estimate or Call us at (510) 371-8510. Or email us at [email protected]