Digitization Services Overview

Brechin Imaging Services offers a variety of imaging services for libraries, museums, archives and corporations as well as individuals with their own personal or family historical collections.

The team at Brechin provides a complete portfolio of archiving, digitization, conversion and imaging services which includes:

• Digitizing photographic slides, films and prints, objects and works of art
• Digitizing books, magazines, manuscripts, newspapers, and other documents
• Document imaging including text-searchable PDF creation and bookmarks
• Image and document file conversion services
• Post-scan processing:  cropping, image cleanup, derivative file creation
• Technical metadata capture
• Indexing and cataloguing files
• Digital / analog file quality and authentication
• Photographic print & media fulfillment services
• Traditional or digital photography

We have an extensive background in imaging science and a wealth of experience digitizing film, prints, artifacts, works of art, documents, books, newspapers, maps, and other material of archival significance. With the skills to take on the most challenging photographic or scanning assignments, our experienced team of photographers and imaging technicians pride themselves in providing high quality digitization and customer service.

Our digitization processes have been developed to meet the needs of the archive, museum and digital library community. They include following a collection of recognized industry "best practices".

Services are provided from our digitization centre in Ottawa, Canada or at the customer location as required.