by Microfacs | Feb 28, 2016 | Documentation
Many of Microfacs’ services revolve around digitizing. Digitizing is taking a physical medium such as a document or microfilm and converting that into a digital format that can be displayed, stored and edited on a computer. The digitizing process starts with...
by Microfacs | Feb 2, 2016 | Documentation
Digital conversion is the process of scanning physical mediums into digital formats. Something is considered digital if it is electronic and can be stored and viewed on a computer. The most common digital formats for conversion are TIFF, PDF and JPEG. Most people...
by Microfacs | Jan 12, 2016 | Documentation
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the technology of analyzing image elements (pixels) and converting them to a text code such as ASCII (numbers). The advantages of OCR are significant since computers can store a digital image as a pattern of pixels, but cannot...
by Microfacs | Nov 20, 2015 | Documentation
John Benjamin Dancer has been credited as the first inventor of microfilm in 1839. The first patent for microfilm was granted to a French optician, Rene Dagron, in 1859 where the first practical use of microfilm was espionage. The first commercial use of microfilm...
by Microfacs | Oct 17, 2015 | Documentation
Microfilm, microfiche and aperture cards are all mediums for storage and retrieval of specifications and documents. They are similar in that they all use 16mm or 35mm microfilm. The film consists of an emulsion embedded on a substrate of cellulose or plastic. The...
by Microfacs | Sep 21, 2015 | Documentation
The Declaration of Independence was written on parchment. Parchment is writing material made from animal skin. The process to make parchment is quite involved; however, relative to paper or hemp, it is very durable. Parchment documents have been known to survive...
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