Journals & Magazines

TownsWeb Archiving’s digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience in magazine scanning, journal scanning, and book scanning, turning your collections and journals to digital.

Most journals and magazines retain an archive of print copies in the form of backlists, but paper formats can make accessing historical material a challenge. Consequently, TownsWeb Archiving offers a unique scanning and conversion process. Digital format OCR search capabilities provide a quick reference for staff, and archives, that would otherwise be incurring storage costs, are given the potential to generate revenue instead.

Find out how much your project could cost

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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.

Lisa Keys

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.

Martin Devereux

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.

Janice Miller

Information & Archives Officer

Digitisation Frequently Asked Questions

We use bespoke book cradles, high-resolution planetary scanners and a range of high-resolution cameras, offering non-contact capture of your precious materials. Our equipment can capture single page or double-page spreads creating output formats in TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA) or any other industry-standard image format you may require. We can also create further surrogate files, such as OCR’d multi-page PDFs, MS Word and eBooks.

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 your digitisation project

Enter your digitisation requirements and tick the box to confirm whether you would like us to get in touch to discuss your requirements further. If you’re not quite ready to use our online quote calculator, feel free to call on 01536 713834 or email us [email protected]

Quote assumptions and specifications

Size: Up to A2 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “YYYY-Diary-Name”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “YYYY-Diary-Name_001.tif”, “YYYY-Diary-Name_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 300 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A2 (Open)
Folder Naming: Journal/Magazine Reference (example: “Issue-No_001”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Issue-No_001_001.tif”, “Issue-No_001_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 300 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A2 (Open)
Folder Naming: Leaflet/Pamphlet Reference (example: “Issue-No_001”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Issue-No_001_001.tif”, “Issue-No_001_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 300 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A2 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “Manuscript-Name”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Manuscript-Name_001.tif”, “Manuscript-Name_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 300 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A1 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “Newspaper-Issue”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Newspaper-Issue_001.tif”, “Newspaper-Issue_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 200 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A1 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “Photograph-Album”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Photograph-Album_001.tif”, “Photograph-Album_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 200 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A2 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “Volume-Name”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Volume-Name_001.tif”, “Volume-Name_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 300 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included

Size: Up to A1 (Open)
Folder Naming: Bound Volume Reference (example: “Register-Name”)
File Naming: Sequential (example: “Register-Name_001.tif”, “Register-Name_002.tif” etc.)
Resolution: 200 PPI
File Formats: TIFF, JPEG (included) and OCR’d Multipage PDF (if selected)
Pre/Post Processing: Image adjustments, rotation, flipping, cropping excluded
Quality Checking: Fees included