Now It is Common to Transfer Microfilm to DVD

Back in the 1990's most clients requested to transfer microfilm to CD. CDs were the most
accepted form of storage. Of course, since storage capacities were so small then, this
resulted in microfilm scanning projects converting dozens of CDs. CDs are only used for a
handful of reels or projects that do not have a large filesize.

Transferring microfilm to DVD is now common practice. DVDs hold around 4GB worth of
images. In the 1990's not all new computers had DVD readers; now since the cost has
dropped DVD drives are installed on all new PCs.

Larger projects can be transferred to an external USB, which can hold hundreds of GB or
even 1TB.

If you want to transfer microfilm to digital format, this can be done with a 35mm and 16mm
roll film microfilm scanner; however it is very likely that it is cheaper to convert by
outsourcing the 16mm or 35mm microfilm to a trusted microfilm scanning company like
Scanning Depot. We have helped many customers transfer microfilm to digital format, such
as PDF, TIFF, and JPEG and we can also help you.

Our microfilm conversion prices are low enough so that you can run your business without
investing in expensive equipment , hiring labor, and maintaining the microfilm scanners.

Digital formats include black and white TIFFs and PDFs, single page or multi-page images.
There are literally dozens of different digital formats and compressions that Scanning Depot
can output, such as Group IV TIFFs, uncompressed grayscale images, JPEG 2000,
different DPI resolutions, and many others.

200DPI bi-tonal TIFFs have the lowest filesize.