Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman Our rare book scanning services are supporting one of our clients with their rare diary digitisation, of which a copy is held at The British War Museum. Our client requests archival TIFF images, perfect for archival storage with PDF output with OCR (optical character recognition).  This will enable searchable text with ease, and allow the very valuable and rare diary to be placed back into storage, preventing any further damage. Extreme care with a 'white glove' approach is required in digitising rare books. With pages and documents starting to deteriorate, it is imperitive this is digitised to the highest quality, once only.  We will be using our archival Bookeye machine, perfect for this type of work. If we can support you with your non-destructive book scanning, then please do contact our office. We have the largest selection of professional Bookeye machines, perfect for archival and corporate digitisation. Kind regards Cheryl Oxford Duplication Ce

We are currently working with one of our NDA heritage archive clients on a large catalogue of audio cassettes. This particular order has the unfortunate issue in that the  pressure pad on most of the tapes has dropped or dislodged.   PRESSURE PAD DETERIORATION On the cassette, just behind the tape at the point where it will touch the deck’s heads, there’s a small pressure pad that should keep the tape/head contact firm. Especially on old tapes, this pressure pad can “drop” – meaning the metal spring loses its push and the pad relaxes back a little.  The “drop” of the pad can also be uneven, so the contact is, say, still firm in the middle of the tape, but less so at the edge. This can cause all sorts of sonic problems, including muddiness. It’s sometimes possible to reassert the pad so its contact is once again strong , but normally our engineers will move the reels into a completely new casing when the pad drops. CONSIDERING YOUR AUDIO ARCHIVES It is important to consider your audio c