Magazine Scanning
Transforming Print Archives into Dynamic Digital Assets with Precision Magazine Scanning.
Magazines that do not have electronic copies of their back issues are missing out on a great opportunity. The professional magazine scanning services provided by eRecordsUSA allow you to benefit from having every issue available in digital format, ready for online distribution at a moment’s notice.
It seems as though the media is consistently moving towards a paperless medium in terms of newspapers and magazines. Nowadays people are beginning to subscribe to their favorite magazine and receive it in digital form, rather than the traditional paper version. There are all kinds of benefits for the reader, and publishers are seeing the benefits too.
While this is great moving forward, what happens to all those back issues? Magazine digitization services now allow simple access to those back issues in ways that were just never possible before. You can find a magazine digitization service that will scan all of those old issues, and then make them available. You can then opt to sell these back issues in digital form, or you may want to offer them as a free bonus. There are plenty of possibilities there.
What Is Magazine Scanning Or Magazine Digitization?
The magazine scanning and digitization process is almost the same as bound book scanning. The difference lies in the paper quality and data contained in the magazines. Magazines comprise thin papers and high-quality images. Most of the data is arranged in sections.
Magazine scanning services use advanced scanners to digitize magazines. These scanners can create exact copies with a resolution of 600 dpi (dots per inch) in color, grayscale, or black and white.
Publishers look forward to scanning their magazines to create easy-to-read digital copies. Moreover, digitizing makes magazines more popular on online platforms.
Getting the Most Value Out of Your Work
You put a lot of effort into creating high-quality content for your magazines. Unfortunately, if readers are interested in a past story that you produced, and you do not have an electronic version available, they may be out of luck.
Back issues of magazines are difficult to store, the pages deteriorate, fade and tear, and sometimes ink will bleed through to other pages. Magazine publishers often do not have the space available to store old issues – and even if they do, they can only let one person at a time view the materials.
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Provide solutions to this problem. At eRecordsUSA, we have the wide format document scanning equipment necessary to create high-resolution scans of magazines. Now, you can have electronic editions of every magazine issue – and never worry about back issues being inaccessible again.
Making the move to digitize the archives of your magazine isn’t a decision process that is taken lightly. It’s a time-consuming process to do it, and likely you’re looking at hiring an outside service to look after the work for you. You’re aware of all the benefits of providing your readers with a digital copy of past issues of your publication, but you want to be sure you’re still able to deliver content at the same level of standards.
A common question that is asked by potential customers is “Do magazine imaging services harm the quality of the images”? A publisher doesn’t want to offer readers anything less than perfect, so the idea of grainy pages, low-resolution images, and just a general disappointing look to the overall magazine isn’t going to fly with them. While that may have been the case in the past, thanks to today’s technology and software, the digital versions of magazines have never looked better. The text is just as sharp on the screen, and the images don’t suffer in the least bit. Colors are just as brilliant whether they are on a computer screen or paper.
How is this possible? Well, you can thank advances in software and the quality of the document scanners themselves. For Magazine Imaging Services you have to look that can scan in a wide format. This will ensure the quality stays intact. Also, be sure to ask if the scans are done in high resolution. The low resolution won’t give you the crispness you’re after.
With just a bit of research, time, and knowledge you’ll be able to find the right magazine imaging service that can make that publication appear just as lifelike in digital form as it did in hard copy.
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Benefits Of Magazine Scanning Services
For businesses, magazines are like historical data that can be useful in business expansion. It must be scanned and preserved for future use. The online platforms will be the best resource for magazine publishing in the coming years. Some of the benefits of old magazine scanning are:
- The safety and security of data are the main reasons for archiving in digital formats.
- With time, the quality of the paper deteriorates and it becomes difficult to manage the physical format. Humidity, storage space, and environmental dangers are some of the causes that can be overcome by creating scanned copies of magazines.
- In the era of global businesses, publishers can easily collaborate and share their data with publishers, and readers.
- Transferring the entire magazine by email to a reader or business partner can be done with a single click saving time and money.
The electronic versions of your magazines will not just look great – they can also be highly functional. Our team can create PDF versions of your magazine issues that are completely searchable, using the latest Full Text OCR Services.
This software takes the scanned pages of your magazines, which initially will be images, and makes the text recognizable. Once the software has analyzed and detected the text, readers will enjoy the added convenience of being able to search for specific words and phrases throughout the magazine.
Scanning these back issues also takes away the fear of losing them and having them ruined, which is a risk publishing houses have to deal with. Not only that but you won’t have to deal with storing these physical copies of the back issues, which can take up quite a bit of space. Once the magazine is scanned, it is then turned over to you in a CD/DVD format, or if you choose you can store it in the cloud. Each of these options means you won’t need large amounts of space to store it.
Magazine Scanning Or Magazine Digitization Services – FAQs
Can Magazines Be Stored Within Microfilm?
In providing digital services to clients, who can receive their digital copies in a variety of formats, magazines can be converted into microfilms. The conversion to digital formats (PDF, Tiff, etc.) can be done anytime.
Microfilm can last for up to 500 years, with a single roll of film storing up to 2,500 images at once. Some publishers like to create microfilms instead of direct digital conversion which is costly.
Is It Possible To Do Skimming & Scanning Of Magazines After Digitization?
The purpose of scanning and digitization is to make digital copies that are readable. In one go, it’s not easy to read and digest the entire content. Therefore the magazine reading is divided into two parts: skimming and scanning.
Skimming involves reading the headings and subheadings of a text to get the main idea or ‘gist’ of the text. This can be called an index of the entire content.
Scanning involves looking through the text to find keywords and phrases that are important or interesting.
Yes, when you do a high–quality scan using specially designed bound book scanners, indexing, and inner page searching becomes easy.
We at eRecordsUSA, scan the magazines so that you can read the digital copies effortlessly. We arrange the scanned copies with indexing and search options.
How Do I Scan and Reproduce Images & Text Accurately In Digital Format?
The text and image scanning can be done using book scanners. The image and text are scanned together. However, to enhance the image quality and to fix the image position on a page, image editing tools are used. Finally, the entire page is stored in a .jpg, .tiff, or .pdf file format. A quality check is done after the pages are arranged. If further page settings are required, advanced photo editing tools are used.
How Much Does Magazine Scanning Cost?
The destructive and non-destructive methods are used for magazine scanning. The total cost will depend on the type of scanning required, the number of pages, and the condition of the magazine.
If image enhancement is required then digital conversion of magazines becomes a costly affair. However, if you have a large volume or a big archive to scan then per-page scanning would be cheaper.
Scanning magazines is a challenging task but there are tricks to get a great outcome. The scanner bed must be cleaned before use. The pages should not be wrinkled and should be straight before the scan and so on. An initial preparation can produce effective scanning results.
To get this done, you need to approach an agency that provides vintage magazine scanning at affordable prices and in a fast-track mode. Get in touch with us for a smooth and simpler scanning of old and new magazines.
Why Choose Us For Magazine Digitization & Scanning Services?
eRecordsUSA has been providing Magazine Scanning Services and has scanned and digitized thousands of full-color magazines, with our high-quality photo quality scanning stations for many historical iconic archives of magazines, for some of the world’s most well-known organizations.
We have scanned many magazines for publishers who are looking to digitize their old issues. We have scanned and made their old issues text searchable PDFs that can be shown online and crawled by search engines. Ask how our Magazine scanning services can help you digitize your precious Back Issues of magazines.
Magazine scanning services require special attention and high expertise to get the best quality scan due to various factors, first, they are bound, and everyone wants to preserve the same, also older issues have the biggest issue of BLEED, that ink from the other side of the page can seep through, also Older, larger-sized magazines do not fit in conventional scanners. Many older magazines have creases and wrinkles that need to be flattened out before scanning. Also, older magazines have very light paper, so requiring special handling.
The older issues of magazines also tend to have yellowing/color issues and the most ink bleed through. At eRecordsUSA, we understand all the above issues well and have found unique ways to reduce and diminish the effects of age, bleed, and bound to get the best quality scan at high resolutions, to allow you to even reprint your magazines again.
If you are looking to start a magazine scanning project, allow us to run an obligation-free sample trial, for a few pages of your magazine. We are confident, after reviewing the sample, that you will love the scan even more than the originals. We can provide PDF, TIF, or JPEG files of your scans. All PDFs are provided as searchable, with OCR software. Without OCR, your PDFs won’t become text searchable.
Let us know how can our Magazine Scanning Services, help you out with your magazine scanning project! Call us at (510) 900-8800, Contact us, or email us at [email protected] to receive a sample or a free, no-obligation quote for the magazine scanning service you need.
eRecordsUSA offers Magazine Scanning Services in the following areas of California, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Redwood City, Marin, San Jose, East Bay: Alameda, Oakland, Milpitas, Hayward, Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, Concord, Contra Costa, Fremont, San Ramon, Napa Valley: Fairfield, Santa Rosa, Solano, Sonoma, Vallejo, Petaluma, Pittsburg & Martinez.
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Mr. Sharma is very professional and friendly. We had eRecords scan our books for archive purposes. The quality of their service is amazing. They are fast and timely. I am very glad that we used eRecords to scan our books and wouldn't hesitate to contact eRecords if we need digitizing/imaging service in the future. Esther L.
12/19/2023 - eRecords has provided an amazing high quality scanning work for our books. Mr. Sharma is very detail oriented and the results are just excellent! Eliana D.
12/12/2023 - I contacted eRecords for a small-scale scanning job. Although they usually work on large projects, Pankaj was more than willing to help with what I was looking for! The scans that came back were high quality, and delivered in a timely matter. eRecords was also the business that quoted me the most competitive price. I would definitely recommend - Pankaj is knowledgable and a great collaborator to work with on meeting any scanning service you may need. Nina P.
3/23/2023 - ERecords USA has provided Fast, Timely, and Amazing quality service for scanning my books and magazines. Ritika, Pankaj, and their Staff are very friendly, flexible, and easy to work with. They go above and beyond in their service. I give them A+++. Rahul P.
2/28/2023 - I have used eRecordsUSA on three separate occasions and each job was performed exceptionally. All files scanned at high resolution, organized, and returned in a timely manner. Pricing was also very reasonable for such time-intensive work. Management was also very good with their communication.
I am a digital nomad that owns zero paper, so having all of my files in Google Drive is imperative. With Google's OCR (Optical Coherence Recognition) I can now find my files at lightning speed. ie - I search for [deed], [roof repair], [assessment], etc. and all relevant files "automagically" appear. Cameron V.
12/09/2022 - EXCELLENT quality work. VERY professional. I had some kids art work scanned high resolution that was too large for the scanners at copy shops. eRecordsUSA did a fantastic job and I highly recommend them. Stephen M.
11/02/2021 - ERecords USA provided a fast and accurate turnaround for a request to duplicate X-Rays. They ensured that copies were accurate prior to payment and went out of their way to produce within a short time. Beth S.
4/21/2021 - Erecords scanned 56 bankers boxes of legal case files and other professional documents for me. This was a particularly difficult and complex job because, in naming files, they had to work from both a written file inventory and the file names on the folders themselves and use a consistent file naming protocol that Erecords and I agreed upon. They did an outstanding job of following this file naming protocol and organizing the documents in digital form to create the file structure that I intended. This job was also difficult because of the variety of page sizes and the age and condition of some of the documents; they managed to accurately capture everything. They also made the job easier for me by picking the documents up at my home. Pankaj at E records was invariably courteous and helpful and spent the time needed with me before the job to develop a digital file structure to make the documents most useful. I highly recommend Erecords for document scanning. David L.
2/27/2021 - I chose eRecords to scan over 2000 pages of yearbooks and several hundred photos from the early 90's to early 00's. I was not disappointed. They were one of the few locations in the Bay Area that I contacted that let me drop off and pickup the material in person. The JPG and PDF scans that they sent me were extremely high quality and OCR'd the yearbooks so I can search for text. They were able to repair one of my yearbook's bindings to the point where I couldn't even find the repair! This place is professional and good value for what I received. If something ever happened to my irreplaceable yearbooks and photos I know they're digitized now and backed up to multiple locations on my network and cloud! Highly recommended, Pankaj and eRecords! David B.
10/28/2020 - I found eRecordsUSA on an internet search and contacted them to inquire about scanning to PDFs a set of some six hundred old, faded, tattered pages of an underground/community newspaper I co-founded fifty years ago. I lucked out on this first call, finding a most professional, efficient, accessible, top notch company to help me archive my newspaper despite these trying, pandemic times. Ted R.
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