Small formats. Complete digital possibilities.
Microfilm, microfiche and aperture cards. Capture, indexing, OCR and a delivery plan shaped around how you need to use the records.
The format changes the questions, not the goal.
Read the clues before you define the capture.
Preserve the control clue already present.
Check how one record begins and ends.
Use representative material when setting review criteria.
A sheet is a grid of records, not one image.
The card context and mounted image each matter.
01Microfilm
16mm & 35mm reels, cartridges and cassettes.
02Microfiche
Jacket, COM and source-document fiche.
03Aperture cards
Engineering drawings, punched or unpunched.
Indexing & OCR
Structured identifiers and useful search layers—not just a stack of images.
Document management delivery
Files and metadata prepared for your approved receiving workflow.
Different records. Different retrieval questions.
Explore national collection-planning services organized around the records you need to use—not a list of invented local offices.
Newspaper microfilm scanning for structured access
National Microfilm digitizes authorized newspaper-reel collections for planned digital access, using a project-defined model of titles, issues, editions, pages, and documented exceptions. This is collection conversion for the organization that controls the reels—not citizen record lookup or a public-record request service.
Explore this service Specialized projectsCOM microfiche conversion planned for report retrieval
COM report microfiche can be converted into a usable retrieval set when the project keeps the report header, period or run information, fiche/frame reference, and approved index fields connected to each delivered record. National Microfilm scopes that work around an organization-controlled collection and its intended retrieval workflow—not a generic OCR promise or an automatic repository load.
Explore this service Specialized projectsBuilding permit and plan microfilm digitization
Authorized building departments can digitize controlled permit and plan microfilm by inventorying the collection, agreeing on local retrieval identifiers, grouping related records, and testing the approved delivery map. This is a collection-conversion service, not a citizen record lookup, a public portal, or a determination of what records may be released.
Explore this service Specialized projectsCounty Land and Deed Record Microfilm Conversion
Recorder, clerk, and archive teams can plan authorized conversion of controlled land-record microfilm by inventorying the collection, agreeing retrieval fields from the source, validating a representative sample, and mapping delivery to their approved workflow. This is collection-conversion planning, not citizen deed lookup, title research, or a public-record request service.
Explore this service Specialized projectsDigitize library microfiche with collection context
University libraries can plan microfiche digitization around the collection’s own headers, call numbers, finding-aid references, order, and fiche or frame context. This page concerns institution-authorized conversion of a controlled collection—not citizen record lookup or a public request for government documents.
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