DCAPS provides expert digitization of image, text and time-based media. Using state-of-the-art equipment, we provide support for a wide range of material types, but specializing in rare artifacts. Along with consulting in digitization best practices, we host a suite of services designed to prepare materials for archiving and management.
Our expertise includes:
- Handling rare and fragile items
- Color management
- Project-management, including liaising with systems and metadata
- Printing for exhibitions or publications
- Large-scale digitization projects
- Customized web design and ongoing support
Services
Image-based materials, photographs, manuscripts, texts, and rare artifacts
- Bi-tonal, grayscale, and color scanning
- Digital photography and processing
- Document structuring of image files
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
Audiovisual and other time-based media
- Highest quality digitization (capture) and reformatting of audiovisual material
- Digital transcoding, processing, and other file-type conversions
- Creation of master and streaming files
Visit our audiovisual digitization page for more information.
Formats
We can digitize:
- Bound items (rare/non-rare)
- Maps (all sizes)
- Flat materials (photographs, manuscripts)
- Photographic negatives/positives (including glass-plate)
- 3-dimensional items
- audiovisual formats
Equipment
- Zeutschel ScanStudio bound book scanner with 100MP Phase One IQ3 back
- Zeutschel 10000 TT bound-book scanner
- Nikon D-800 and D-810 Digital SLR cameras
- Phase One IQ3 100 megapixel medium format repro camera
- Atiz scanner equipped with Canon 5D-MarkII Digital SLR cameras
- Epson 10000 XL tabloid flatbed scanner
- Fujitsu fi 6230 sheet-fed scanner
- Epson R2880 Archival Inkjet Printer
See our audiovisual digitization page for our list of AV equipment.