Scanning & Digitization
Scanning and digitization protect your photos from damage, save space, and make sharing easier. Organizing photos before scanning streamlines the process and improves digital organization. Use appropriate resolutions for high-quality scans: 300-600 dpi for prints, 1200-2400 for small black-and-white prints, and 2400-4800 dpi for slides/negatives. Digitized collections preserve memories, enhance accessibility, and enable creative projects like books or slideshows.
Specialized Scanning Services:
Transform your outdated formats and precious original books and documents into a shareable digital format, making them accessible from a distance and preserving them at the same time. We have access to specially designed scanning equipment for various uncommon or obsolete formats, such as:
- Microfiche, microfilm (16mm and 35mm) and engineering aperture cards
- Administrative documents (by the box) converted to indexed digital files
- Fragile books and old documents
- Plans, maps and drawings, up to 48 inches wide.
Exploratory Phase: Initial Consultation
Arrange 1 FREE 30-minute conversation to discuss what you would like to have digitized/scanned.
Do you have a deadline? A special project?
Digitization costs are charged based on the number of items, their size and the resolution they are scanned at.
Pricing
Print Photo/Slide/Negative Scanning
| Scan loose photos up to 4×6 to 8×10 (600dpi) | $0.49 each |
| Slides/negatives (2400dpi) | $1.40 each |
| Photos smaller than 4×6 (600 dpi or more, depends on age and quality) | $0.65 each |
| Albums and oversized pages (600dpi) | $1.50 per page |
| Remove photos or pages from albums (or replace in albums) | $15.00 per album |
| Remove slides from carousels/slide boxes | $15.00 per box |
| Conversion of VHS and video files to MP4 | $30 each |
| Conversion of audio files to MP3 | $25 each |
What’s included in the cost of Basic Photo Scanning?
- Orientation correction, cropping as needed
- Scan reverse side of the photos that have writing and notations
- Auto color restoration to restore faded and discolored photos, when needed
- Auto dust and scratch removal from slides and negatives
- Photos are saved as individual tiff (for archive copy) AND jpg images for general use
Groups of photos will be saved with filenames according to date and/or theme.
Add-ons ($65/hr):
- Adding metadata (keywords)
- Date correction
- File renaming
- Glue removal from backs of photos removed from albums
- Photo album pages segmented and saved as individual images
After the job is complete.
Your print photos are returned to you. Digitized images are saved in named folders to a flash drive or external hard drive (provided or paid for by the client).
Now you have an additional layer of protection for your collection of photos.
The backup plan
Now you have 2 copies of your collection.
- The physical version which is susceptible to loss through disasters and damage
- The digital version, an external hard drive or USB which is susceptible to computer/hardware breakdown
We suggest adding 1 more layer:
- An extra hard drive off site or
- A cloud-based back up