What are the Best Microfiche Scanning Prices and Microfiche Conversion Prices?

Scanning Depot is a leader in microfiche conversion, and realizes that in this current economy clients need the bestmicrofiche scanning prices for high volume microfiche conversions. If you are bidding on a government RFP bid from BidSynch, Onvia, or local governments and come across a microfiche digitizing portion, please contact your Scanning Depot to assist you with a microfiche coversion pricing quote.

If microfiche conversion is new to you (it is a niche market), and you have a microfiche bid opportunity, this ScanningDepot can help explain the microfiche conversion process to you, in addition to explaining and recognizing the differences between COM fiche, 16mm jacketed microfiche, step and repeat fiche cards, 35mm jackets, rewritable microfiche, and how microfiche get labeled and indexed.

Here is a list of microfiche scanning questions that help us give microfiche scanning prices:

1) What type of microfiche needs to be scanned- The different types of microfiche are COM fiche, jacketed fiche, rewritable fiche, andstep-and-repeat.

2) Do the images need to be indexed and named in a certain way? Generally clients just need virtual folders named sequentially or by microfiche header label, however other times they would need data entry from fields, like SSN, Names, or Case Numbers.

3) What is the preferred image file format? Group IV TIFF, PDF, JPEG, Uncompressed TIFF, bi-tonal images, greyscale images, multi-tiffs, multi-PDFs, searchable OCR PDFs, or another image format?

4) If you arealready using a document management system or you have your own document management software, you must comply to the requested file format.Please let us know what file format that is.

5) What is the output media? CD, DVD, external USB hard drive, FTP, or flash drive, etc.

6) What is the microfiche conversion turnaround time? When does the microfiche need to be shipped back, and at what priority? If it is a large microfiche project, can the fiche be released all at once or in waves? What is the deadline to deliver the images?