Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

NON DESTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE DIARY AND BOOK SCANNING Non destructive book scanning supports clients with an affordable option for all books, regardless  of the paper type or whether colour or black and white.  We can offer searchable PDF and editable Word documents for each book scanned. Our digitisation services extend to rare book scanning and bound volumes. This includes diaries, magazines, newspapers and any other type of files, all sizes and either small or large volume. Digital formats and ABBYY Fine Reader Professional OCR technology offered in your chosen files. Books Scanned and Returned Intact No Price Difference for Colour or Greyscale All Orders Receive PDF of your books OCR Options with ABBYY Fine Reader Available Word and Searchable PDF Options Books Scanned at 300dpi for Black and White, 600dpi for Greyscale or Colour Many Book Sizes Catered For Book Scanning OCR Technology Local History Book Scanning Archiving Kind regards Cheryl Director Oxford Dupli...

OUR BROADCAST VIDEO TRANSFER SERVICES ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Our preservation AV archive transfer services are perfect for capturing content from professional broadcast tapes and converting to new digital formats can convert the following specifications.  10 bit uncompressed files in either AVI or Quicktime codecs. Pro-Res 422, FFV1, H.264 MOV, H.264 MP4, DVD and Blu-Ray discs. These can be converted to storage media, cloud or your own server.  We can support both PAL and NTSC tape formats for DVCam, MiniDV, HDV, Betacam SP SX, Digibeta, Sony IMX, DVCPro, VHS, U-Matic. There are only three ways to preserve analogue content:  1. Conserve the originals;  2. Make copies of the originals, using the same or similar technology (dubbing analogue content onto new analogue carriers); and  3. Move the content onto new technology.  Alternatively we can provide authored DVD and Blu-Rays with menu suppliments. Our services are su...

DISCUSSING FFV1 The most common challenge in digitising moving image is the file sizes that result from the actual digitisation.  The file sizes can be huge and with that comes the increased cost of storage and maintenance for long term preservation. Common consensus consider 10-bit uncompressed to be the preservation standard for moving image because it uses no file compression.  It is considered the most reliable safest format for moving image preservation at the current time. 10-bit uncompressed deliver high image resolution, colour quality and sharpness whilst avoiding motion compensation and compression artefacts. THE DOWNSIDE TO 10-BIT UNCOMPRESSED 1 hour of 10-bit uncompressed video can produce a 100gb file. To put it into perspective it would take 21 DVDs to store a video of this size.  As you can see, its a lot of data! WHAT IS FFV1? FFV1 (Full name:  FFmpeg Video Codec 1 ) Contained by ‎: ‎ AVI ‎, ‎ MKV ‎, ‎ MOV ‎ Latest r...