Having physical material to search through and retrieve is not only restrictive in time and efficiency but is often catalogued with local knowledge leaving your work force lost when attempting to retrieve a document.
Your staff can be spending a high percentage of their day retrieving and searching for a physical document, this time is valuable and can be better used.
By using Informa’s experience, hardware and expertise you will not only have a digital copy of your large format collections but a high quality and searchable copy. Large format scanning includes drawings, maps, blueprints, utility plans and more. Using Informa’s state of the art large format drawings you can improving access, sharing capabilities, efficiency with in your work force, storage options and save on physical storing space. Informa can scan any size up to A0.
Informa’s advanced technology has revolutionised the capturing, enhancing, and sharing potential of any book or ledger, while safeguarding its fragility and increasing its value.. With high-end technology, unparalleled personalised customer experiences and almost 30 years expertise Informa will project manage you gently through the digital process from in-house collection to on-line collaboration.
Preserve your memories by making them high quality images that you can download, share and search through. Whether you have loose or mounted photographs, Informa can scan using our high end scanners and produce perfect reproductions.
Gain instant access to your Microfilm and Microfiche media by digitalising your collections. You will no longer require hardware to access your material and can share with ease and save on physical storage space.
Any historical drawings stored on an aperture card can be digitised and indexed enabling you to search through them with ease and share collaboratively. Aperture card readers are dated, slow and unreliable, Informa use state of the art Microfiche readers to give you a high-quality image.
Whether you want a print a reproduction or to merely safe guard your art collection, high resolution art scanning involves converting a work of art into a digital format. Informa using our I2S Quartz scanner and our experience can capture produce a high resolution digital file of your art piece as closely as possible.
Evaluation and Collection
Evaluation of Specifications – being an extension of your team, we will discuss your current work flow and find the most efficient and cost-effective way to execute any project.
Dedicated and Secure Collections. Using our own courier service, packing can also be arranged.
Document Preparation and Classification – Media evaluation, preparation ahead of scanning so you don’t have to.
The Capture Stages
Capture on one of Informa’s high tech scanners, finding the most efficient and quality process. Informa have hardware to support mixed media scanning from till receipts to A0 large format drawings, our Opex scanner supports scanning multiple different types of material and sizes on the one scanner without our operative having to get up and move from one scanner to the next, saving costs on time and supporting efficiency and quality.
Data Enhancements and Enrichments
Digital Extraction – enabling OCR and data extraction on non image-based formats, including Transcribing via Transkribus.
Data Entry – Indexing manually or automated where possible using the fields suitable to support your workflow and enable simple search and retrieval.
Quality Assurance – Quality checks are carried out by multiple members of the team throughout the entire process, with multiple eyes on the job there is plenty of opportunity to check the efficiency, quality of the work and the overall process.
Publishing and Storage
Digital Publishing – Informa can publish how best suits your needs, linking up with yor current system, supplying you with an Informa data hosting solution to suit your needs or discussing the requirements with your IT team. Either way, Inform are here to support you and make sure we fulfill your needs.
Hardcopy Storage or Shredding.
Unlike with modern documents Archival system users are often looking for a different experience, a more visual experience where their search requirements are varied, sometimes not know what they are looking for or expect to find but want to browse with purpose.
Archive collections will vary greatly (photos, maps, book, diaries, letters, documents, art, sketches etc) and client want a system that can flexible showcase these digital items in the best light.
An organizations wide robust and flexible search platform is more important than ever as we move towards a paperless environment. The pandemic from 2020-2022 accelerated change at a far greater rate that anyone ever expected. Overnight hybrid working became the norm. Less face-to-face meetings and more online meeting than ever imagined. New work practices demand collaboration online to facilitate the hybrid working model.
All of this meant paper that needed to be centrally accessed online was digitized and the growth of ESI has accelerated even faster with online collaboration tools. All this means robust and flexible enterprise search is critical, we need to be able to find everything paper & digital in a single search on one platform. That platform needs to bring structure to unstructured data and allow users to search as they want to search not how the system can search.
Our high tech scanners are capable of digitising any material up to A0 whether you have drawings, maps, blueprints, microfilm or delicate materials, books and loose leaf.
With high quality image capture and our experience, you couldn’t chose a better extension of your team then Informa.
Are you physicals backed up? What would you do if you couldn’t find something or you lost them all?
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Regardless of what Industry you work in, Informa have a solution for you, we have worked with all sectors across Ireland. Find out what we can do for you specific to your industry.
