Dear List
I work for Elmbridge Borough Council and we are currently drafting the
requirement specification for the digital capture of planning files and
microfiche slides.
It was recently suggested to me by a doc-management supplier that
microfiche containing both 16mm and 35mm images would make it difficult to
automate the image capture process and result in high labour costs. We
store approximately 65,000 slides which include 2-channel (containing up to
six 35mm frames), combination (up to three 35mm frames and thirty-six 16mm
frames) and 5-channel (up to sixty 16mm frames).
The following 2 suggestions were put to me:
a) to supply you with a suitable networked microfiche scanner so that you
can scan on demand, adding the scanned image to your library of scanned
documents so that you never have to re scan a microfilm record that has
been previously requested,
b) we store your microfilm for you and offer a scan-on-demand or print-on-
demand service.
In cost effective terms could anyone please advise whether the above 2
options would be more benficial than sending off larger batches for scan
which we originally intended to do bearing in mind most of our slides
contain both 16mm and 35mm frames.
Any information on this subject would be much appreciated, thanks.
Rob
Rob Teran
Electronic Media & Graphics Officer
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