Digitization and Content Conversion Services

PTFS offers specialty and high volume digitization and content conversion services at affordable pricing using industry experts trained in all facets of imaging projects. Located in our 6,000 square foot, government secure, state-of-the-art service center, PTFS digitizes a wide variety of source material/types including paper, engineering drawings, 16mm and 35mm microfilm, slides, microfiche and video. Digitization capabilities include bitonal, grayscale and color image capture. All projects incorporate a workflow quality control plan, based upon customer requirements.

Paper Scanning

PTFS carefully prepares each item for scanning by removing clips, staples and document fasteners, identifying page breaks and other preparatory steps. Titles, authors, dates, and other pertinent metadata are either keyed from the image on the source material or extracted automatically from forms or from client legacy databases to create metadata.

Scanners include:

Vacuum-fed belt scanners (fragile and odd shaped material)
Platen-protected wide-angle scanners (book scanning)
High-volume scanners (standard paper)
Large-format scanners (architectural drawings and other oversize materials)
Flat-bed scanners (delicate and fragile materials)

Books & Journals

PTFS has significant expertise digitizing books, journals, and other bound materials. Special handling procedures for page turning and to prevent binding stress are utilized following stringent client specifications. Specially designed overhead digital scanners allow digital images to be produced without touching the surface of fragile paper.

Microfilm & Microfiche

PTFS has film digitization capability for microfilm or microfiche. High-resolution microfilm and microfiche scanners capture multiple frame/page images at up to 600 DPI. Microfilm capture software can obtain page and section break index data from small, medium and large blips on the microfilm.

Photographs & Slides

PTFS provides services to convert black & white and color photograph collections into web-accessible digital archives. Digital photographs can be produced from prints, slides or negatives. Multiple digital versions of photos can be provided to include web-ready and high-resolution versions for archive. Processing techniques include watermarking, copyright embossing and image enhancement.

Engineering drawings

PTFS has experience in handling and scanning C, D & E size documents. Our large format scanners are capable of handling a wide variety of engineering media types from standard blueprints to Mylar and Sepia, while optimizing the scanned image for the best possible result regardless of the quality of the original document.

Video & Audio

PTFS produces digital video from analog source originals. Distance learning video libraries can be built by selection of pertinent clips from full-length sequences. The researcher can then view the clips and accompanying audio and access the full video upon demand.