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Published Books & Thesis
Published Books & Thesis
TownsWeb Archiving’s digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience in book scanning for bound publications, like published books and theses, and can digitise to PDF, turning your books to digital.
These items are often too valuable to be unbound for scanning conversion, so our specialised scanning equipment captures the entire publication page and sophisticated software provides curvature correction on all pages. Choosing to digitise reduces overall storage expenses and provides fast access to your documents through keyword searching.
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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 bespoke large-format, high-resolution planetary scanners and have a range of high-resolution cameras, offering non-contact capture of your precious material. 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