Yesterday, we “flipped the switch” on our new website. The old homegrown site had served us well throughout the first part of our company’s existence, but we have aggressively grown over the past year and required something which better described our new capabilities to current and potential customers. Kudos to Cloud Nine Labs for working …
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A Busy Summer
It’s been awhile since our last update to the blog. We’ve been heads-down with a lot of important digitization projects lately. About a month ago, we performed onsite scanning on a large job for a legal services company here in the Northeast. Currently, we have two large jobs in the shop. One is a 461 …
On NARA Publications & working with difficult film
Nobody has more microfilm than the US Government — and no one has created more public domain microfilm publications than the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA. In fact, Creekside Digital first ventured into the high-quality microfilm digitization industry as part of a software project built around NARA microfilm, and it continues to be …
‘Tis the Season . . . for Archival Conversions
What’s going on at Creekside Digital? Well, it’s unseasonably cold here in Maryland today. It was 12 degrees this morning and it’s up to a balmy 21 now. It’s windy too, and the wind chill has given rise to a Severe Weather alert for our area. Recently, we’ve been working on a pair of 35mm …
What Kind of Microfilm do I Have?
We get a lot of questions from folks who have documents on microform but are not sure exactly what they have. Hopefully this post will clarify things a bit. Creekside Digital can scan all of the following major types of microform: Rollfilm. As its name implies, rollfilm is a roll or spool of film containing …
To OCR or Not to OCR . . . ?
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR for short, is a type of software designed to extract text from images (for example, digitized images of your rollfilm) and output it to a file such as a PDF or text file. Creekside Digital often runs OCR on digitized rollfilm and creates searchable PDF files. But will it work …
Flat-Rate Pricing – Why it Matters
Creekside Digital does things differently than most of the other microfilm digitization vendors out there: all of the rollfilm projects we quote are bid using flat per-roll pricing. There are a few reasons we do this, which we’ll get into shortly, but the bottom line is that what’s good for our customers is good for …