Expert digitisation consultants
Inhouse collection & delivery service
Accredited digitisation studio team
Highly accurate results
Instantaneous digital content searches
Capture data from any material type
Showcase your collections online
Improve access & discoverability 
Fully immersive virtual experiences
Blueprints & Technical Drawings
TownsWeb Archiving’s digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience in the digitisation of blueprint and technical drawings, turning your blueprints and drawings to digital.
With the case of large format technical drawings, our team can capture both the front and back of your images, ensuring no content is lost. Item references can also be used to name each file, thereby mapping the physical to the digital.
Digitisation protects your blueprints and technical drawings from loss or damage and makes them quickly accessible. We can create output formats in TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA), or any other industry-standard format you may require.
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Hear what our clients have to say about our digitisation services
TownsWeb Archiving have proved very able and extremely helpful in supporting us to bring a local heritage alive for local people. We would certainly recommend TownsWeb Archiving to other libraries, museums and archives.
Exhibition and Display Officer
We are delighted with the results. Without TownsWeb Archiving’s services we could not have completed the work in time and on budget. Their staff have been nothing but approachable, helpful and attentive and I can strongly recommend their services.
Head of Digital
TownsWeb offered us a complete end-to-end service, from scanning and transcription, to web design and content management software. Their work was completed quickly and to a high standard, and we are extremely pleased with the results.
Information & Archives Officer
Digitisation Frequently Asked Questions
We use specialised equipment for large-format scanning and high-resolution planetary scanning, and a range of high-resolution cameras for the non-contact capture of precious, old and fragile material. Our team has a vast amount of experience working closely with large format items and can make recommendations for the most suitable preparation prior to digitisation and transit.
All files are captured by our highly trained digitisation technicians using overhead, daylight balanced, non-heat producing lighting before undergoing a formal quality assurance checking procedure. The final step in the process is the delivery of your electronic files by hard drive.
Calculate the cost of digitising your loose items collections
Simply input your specifications into the FREE digitisation quote calculator below, to get an estimate of how much your project might cost. The prices quoted are indicative for your material quantity and type but are subject to any additional costs such as file naming, folder naming and any post-processing requirements you may have.
If you don’t see your specific material listed it might be that your content is more suited to an informal chat.
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Loose Item Digitisation Quote Calculator
Important Note: We charge a standard £500 project set-up and management fee in addition to the cost of digitisation.
Capture the data within your Blueprints & Technical Drawings
Digitisation places your blueprints & technical drawings in the perfect format to capture the valuable data contained within them, offering great potential for system integration and online access and discovery.
Capture the data within your collection with handwritten transcription, identifying any handwritten or cursive script within images and converting this to searchable and machine readable textual metadata through a process of scanning. Using bespoke transcription validation software we can guarantee highly accurate results, carrying out any preprocessing measures required and outputting to any format.
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Publish your Blueprints & Technical Drawings online
PastView is the perfect platform for publishing your blueprints & technical drawings online, offering great potential for access and discovery. Manage and publish your collection with:
- Advanced Search: Creating numerous deep dive opportunities into your collections
- High Resolution Zoom: Revealing every minute detail through large scale manipulation
- Print Facilities: Creating sources of revenue through the sale of glossy physical prints
- Watermarking Security: Safeguarding and protecting your images from copyright infringement
