Reason #2: Microfiche Scanning Accuracy
Many organizations don't fully realize the impact on organizational archives that a conversion project like a microfiche scanning service can have on their records. Standard microfiche scanning services will miss a certain percentage of your archives as the information is converted from microfiche to digital files. For example, many standard microfiche scanning services dissociate each image from the microfiche as it is digitally converted. In some cases, the microfiche scanning machines may miss an image as they are converted the film. In other cases, the actual image is converted, however the manual key entry is performed incorrectly, resulting in a lost image because it will not be indexed correctly and thus never appear in a search result. Even microfiche scanning services that offer 99% scanning accuracy can still result in thousands of lost images. Digital ReeL is different because BMI scans the entire microfiche during the microfiche scanning process. Essentially, we create an archive of virtual, digital microfiche rather than an archive of lots and lots of images. Because of this, you can visually ensure that your entire archive as been digitally scanned during the microfiche scanning process. Reason #3: Digital Image Quality with Adjustable Grayscale The Digital ReeL microfiche scanning solution includes a software application that resembles a reader printer. Users simply scroll through and navigate to the virtual microfiche they are seeking - no more physical microfiche searches, loading the microfiche to a physical reader printer or maintaining physical reader printers for users. Digital ReeL presents everything in digital form - the microfiche as well as the reader printer application that is available from a computer workstation (Digital ReeL also includes a web browser version). Users are able to optimize the quality of each microfiche and each image using a technology called adjustable grayscale. Grayscale adds a photographic quality to each microfiche which makes it easier to view. Users have the ability to adjust the grayscale using contrast and brightness icons within the Digital ReeL interface. In this way, users can fine-tune difficult-to-read, even illegible images prior to printing, emailing and saving. The adjustable nature of Digital ReeL's grayscale feature is what makes it unique to the industry. In Summary
Outsourcing your microfiche scanning project to BMI and using Digital ReeL as your solution can help you not only achieve a rapid ROI, but can also help you improve service levels to your clients without adding to staff. This may be particularly important if your organization has faced extremely tight budgets and has few staff resources but high inventories of microfiche with information that needs to be accessed by individuals. An outsourcer like BMI Imaging has the economies of scale that your company may not be able to replicate. In addition, BMI Imaging has a unique microfiche scanning solution, Digital ReeL, that hundreds of organizations across the country have taken advantage of. Contact us to learn more.
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