Microfilm To Digital Data A Complex Problem With A Simple Solution
Microfilm was the format of choice for the document management industry for several decades prior to the emergence of electronic document management and the CD-ROM in the early 1990s.
It follows, therefore, that there is a huge backlog of microfilm of many different formats in the system, all requiring specialized (and expensive) equipment for viewing and printing back to hard copy. As they stand, they cannot be integrated into an EDM system, even though they may contain mainstream information which is frequently required.
The technology for digitizing microfilm is readily available: the decision to be made is how to employ it to best effect.
A digitizing reader printer incorporating its own printer can be used as a stand-alone device in much the same way as the old microfilm reader printer, but making use of scanning technology rather that the old Xerox process. A picture file is produced which outputs to A4 using the machine’s own laser printer, the downside being that originals larger than A4 will be produced at much reduced size. The solution to the scaling problem is...
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