Companies Use Microfilm for Record Keeping

Let's face it: if your organization still uses microfilm for record retrieval, you realize that it is
outdated for a number of reasons:

1) It takes too long to find a roll of film.
2) The condition of the rolls degrades over time.
3) It takes a lot of time to search through frames to find your record in a microfilm viewer.

Any company, business, government, or organization who has had files stored on microfilm
eventually converts their microfilm to digital image. The reasons are quite simple: easy
retrieval, better storage, less labor, and more efficient. It costs less to convert to microfilm
than it does to keep microfilm analog.

Companies that use microfilm include, but are not limited to: schools, the federal
government, engineering and architecture, mortgage and loan, law firms, medical offices,
hospitals, universities, utilities, manufacturers, aircraft, airline operators & maintenance
facilities, small businesses, healthcare insurance, and many others.

Are you considering purchasing a microfilm scanner to convert your own 16mm roll film or
35mm microfilm? Join the club of thousands of organizations in the world that have
converted microfilm to image. You should consider the cost savings and benefits of
outsourcing to Scanning Depot. Why not subcontract scanning microfilm to Scanning Depot
instead of getting into hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital investments or loans?

In addition to the microfilm scanning phase, there are a variety of other image processes
necessary to transfer images from microfilm to usable digital documents. These steps
include quality control, auto cropping, indexing, OCR, create PDF, and others imaging
services. For someone that has no microfilm scanning experience, there will be a long trial
and error phase.