Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

What Actually Causes Paper to Deteriorate in Storage? Oxford Duplication Centre offer a professional bulk and short-order document scanning facility for corporate, heritage and consumer clients. Converting all paper and animal hide media into National Archive Standard output formats, including PDF, PDF/OCR, TIFF and JPEG options. https://oxfordduplicationcentre.com/document-collections.html The rate and severity of deterioration result from internal and external factors: most importantly, the composition of the paper and the conditions under which the paper is stored. Paper is made of cellulose -- a repeating chain of glucose molecules -- derived from plant cell walls. In the presence of moisture, acids from the environment (e.g., air pollution, poor-quality enclosures), or from within the paper repeatedly cut the glucose chains into shorter lengths. This acid hydrolysis reaction produces more acids, feeding further, continued degradation. Typical causes are as follows: 1.  Degrada...

We offer a range of document scanning solutions to digitise new and existing records. We handle any type of document, from invoices to complex technical drawings and from a single file through to entire archives. We can scan to A0 size and film even larger documents. Document Scanning Oxford Archiving and Managing Your Files Bound Books and Items to Digital Files Scan Your Documents Magazine Scanning Book Scanning Services You can be assured of accurate, high-quality results. We use top-quality Bell & Howell/Kodak and Fujitsu document scanning equipment. A Choice of Scanning Solutions Digital images from all sizes of originals – from till receipts to A0-sized plans Digital images of documents and plans in .pdf, pdf/a, .tif or .jpg format Images in colour, greyscale or black and white Full indexing service and optical character recognition (OCR) of .pdf documents, creating ‘digital filing cabinets’ and readable, searchable documents Scanning your important documents and records enab...

  Recovering your Documents & Records  We are supporting a client with their large archive of documents which has suffered smoke damage from a fire that occurred in their building.   Fortunately for our clients, the documents were in their fireproof safes so apart from smoke damage they survived fairly well. Preserving vital corporate and historical documents is a huge responsibility as the papers have to be kept safe and intact for years to decades. To combat the inevitable aging or damage of papers, clients find solutions in document scanning services where physical deterioration of papers is no longer an issue. Paper documents are definitely vulnerable to floods, fires, and other natural disasters. The last thing you will want is to see them vanish without any backups. Losing vital papers will absolutely have a significant impact on your business and you do not want this to happen. In maintaining electronic files, data loss is no longer an issue. Leaving vi...

Oxford Duplication Centre Working with Local History | Kidlington Historical Society Project | England Kidlington  &  District Historical Society . The Society was founded in 1971 with the object of promoting an interest in the history, architecture and archaeology.  The society carries out research into the local history of Kidlington and the adjoining area. Our experienced team at Oxford Duplication are working on a year project to document scan, prepare OCR (optical character recognition) and embed the vast and complex Kidlington Historical Society's document archives into a live working Excel Spreadsheet that can be embedded into their website. The archive comprises of many thousands of documents, books, pamphlets and newspapers that need to be individually scanned and indexed accordingly. Understandably this project requires a high level of experience and accuracy to ensure that documents relating to Kidlington and surrounding areas are indexed accurately, ready ...