Aperture Card Scanning
Expert Aperture Card Scanning and Digital Conversion Services
Aperture Cards Digitisation Do your historical drawings on aperture cards limit access or risk deterioration?
Gain fast, secure access to your archived drawings with our professional aperture card scanning and conversion services. We transform legacy aperture cards into high-resolution, fully indexed digital files, making your technical drawings instantly accessible, shareable, and easy to manage.
With decades of experience, our expert team handles historical aperture cards with the specialist care. We follow strict security protocols throughout the digitisation process to ensure your data’s confidentiality and accuracy. Whether for engineering, utilities, or architectural records, we protect the heritage of your originals while delivering high-quality digital files.
Ready to bring your aperture card archive into the digital age?
Complete Aperture Card Digitisation Solutions Your Historical Drawings, Digitally Transformed and Secure.
Collection
Whether your aperture cards are stored in specialist metal cabinets or boxed in archive containers, our logistics team will collect them according to your preferences, ensuring secure handling, consistency, and full traceability throughout our pickup and return.
Scanning
Our advanced microform imaging technology converts aperture cards into high-resolution digital images, available in industry-standard formats including PDF, TIFF, and JPEG. This scanning service delivers exceptional quality, enabling efficient document management and faster access to your digitised drawings.
Indexing
Our comprehensive indexing service ensures your newly digitised information is effortlessly organised and easily searchable. We index your data using key details like drawing reference numbers, title, and issue number, ensuring quick retrieval.
Delivery
Upon completion of the process, you can receive your final digital data through a variety of convenient and secure digital methods. Choose from our encrypted secure download portal, a USB stick, or a hard drive, depending on your preference.
Drawing Indexing - Enhancing Accessibility Building A Structured Database Library of Drawings
We offer a professional indexing service specifically designed for drawings scanned from aperture cards. Our process involves assigning searchable and meaningful metadata to each digital drawing. This makes it significantly easier for our clients to categorise, organise, and retrieve their valuable historical or technical drawings.
How Our Indexing Service Works:
- Unique Identification: Each drawing receives a unique identifier, such as a drawing number.
- Comprehensive Data Capture: We can add further index data to the digital record, including the drawing’s title, date, author, sheet number, issue number, and any other relevant details you require.
Optimise Your Digitised Drawing Management Smarter Access. Faster Retrieval. Better Control.
Beyond basic indexing, we offer advanced, database-driven solutions to transform how you manage your digitised drawings. Imagine effortlessly searching and retrieving drawings with multiple filters, creating customised lists, and benefiting from secure, centralised storage. This provides a highly efficient system, turning your digitised aperture cards into an organised, accessible asset. We offer two robust solutions, each designed for enhanced control and efficiency:
- Halogen: Halogen is our local server-based document and drawing storage and retrieval system. It offers excellent security and powerful search features, giving you complete control over your data within your own infrastructure.
- Pearl Cloud: Pearl Cloud is our comprehensive, cloud-based managed document management solution. We handle everything for you, including robust security, automatic backups, and dedicated support. Enjoy flexible, 24/7/365 access to your drawings from anywhere in the world, secured by advanced two-factor authentication.
Convert Your Drawings to Editable CAD Files
Once your drawings are scanned and converted to PDF, we can take it a step further. Our specialised CAD conversion service transforms static files into fully editable formats such as .DWG and .DXF.
This service helps reduce manual redrawing, saving both time and costs while enabling smooth integration with your existing CAD workflows. Gain the flexibility to update and revise your technical documents with ease, directly within your CAD software.
Image Enhancement Enhance Clarity. Preserve Detail. Perfect Your Digitised Drawings.
In addition to scanning, we offer a professional post-scan image processing service specifically designed to digitally enhance and optimise drawings that were originally of poor quality or badly microfilmed. Our advanced image processing software ensures optimisation, refining your digitised assets for clarity and usability.
- Image Cropping & De-skewing: Scanned images are imported into our specialised software. We meticulously crop them to eliminate excessive, unnecessary borders and edges, focusing keenly on the core drawing. We also deskew images, for better alignment.
- Image Optimisation: Our powerful tools can adjust brightness, contrast, and exposure, effectively removing dark shadows and improving overall image clarity. We further enhance the original images by sharpening details and applying noise reduction, selectively refining focused areas while minimising imperfections from unfocused regions.
