Book Scanning Service

Book Scanning

A combination of technology and expertise that enables the digital preservation of bound material. For over 15 years we have been successfully delivering highly confidential and time sensitive projects, with agreed project plans and guaranteed deliverables.

Our full service scanning bureau incorporates industry leading book scanning technology for the rapid and high quality scanning of bound material. The scanners we have deployed are specially designed to capture images from bound material facing up which eliminates the need to unbind them. ImageAccess Bookeye 3

Books are boxed and Books are carefully Scanned images are collected by our security-cleared scanned according to securely delivered to the client via drivers in GPS tracked vehicles. pre-agreed parameters. SFTP or encrypted USB. Powering the creation of eBooks.

Treventus ScanRobot® 2.0 How the process works

Our security cleared drivers collect your All of the scanners we have deployed can books in our GPS tracked vehicles and output scanned images in a number of securely deliver them to our facility. formats including PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc. The scanned images can also be We have a specialist team who are produced in preservation quality black highly experienced and dedicated to and white, grayscale or full colour. scanning bound material. These operatives are trained in fragile material handling to After scanning and quality control, we can ensure precious collections are process each scanned image through our protected and handled in the correct highly accurate optical character manner throughout the scanning process. recognition (OCR) software, which reads The same care and professional treatment and recognises each typed word and is applied to every book put through our character to allow full text retrieval. We have deployed two Treventus scanning process. ScanRobot® 2.0 which are high Over the course of the last twelve years speed mass digitisation systems For very old and delicate material we use we have encountered numerous types of (MDS) designed for large volume special book cradles which ensure that the bound material and have built up a wealth digitisation of any bound material. spine of the book is not harmed during the of experience delivering these projects to scanning process. These scanners can scan the satisfaction of our clients’. The Treventus can scan up to a variety of sizes up to A1. 2,500 page per hour, it has an optical resolution of 300 dpi and it can output images in a number of Benefits of Book Scanning formats. These images are preservation quality black and • Preserve - protection against fire, The following benefits can be realised after white, grayscale or full colour. moisture or a natural disaster. the scanned images are processed through • Increase Availability - distribute optical character recognition (OCR) This scanner has three scanning online. software: modes including automatic • Save Space - compress libraries into scanning, semi-automatic scanning small digital files. • Searchability - instant access to key for the gentle scanning of fragile • Multiple Users at Once - information. books and manual scanning for the collaborate efficiently. • Editability - update the book text. cover, spine, and fold outs. • Republication - create a digital copy for printing.

Glenbeigh Records Management (GRM) is a Glenbeigh Records Management Ltd. wholly-owned Irish company specialising in the Damastown Way, provision of a comprehensive range of records Damastown Business Park, management and digitisation services. Dublin 15, D15 X9DP. Our services enable organisations to protect their information; comply with regulatory requirements; realise operational efficiencies; +353 (1) 822 7161 and provide better customer service to their [email protected] clients as access to critical data is streamlined. www.grm.ie