Manuscripts, rare books, local studies collections and artworks, digitised for researchers, exhibitions and the public, with the originals cared for at every step.
Handwritten originals captured without contact, from letters and diaries to literary manuscripts.
Cradled so the spine is never forced, and scanned page by page.
Large-format scanning, full size and full colour.
Paintings, tapestries and fabric art in full colour.
Online books readers can leaf through, for exhibitions and websites.
Fully hosted online collections, with payments if you want to charge for access.
Every handling shortens an original’s life. A good digital copy lets researchers and visitors see every detail, as often as they like, while the original rests.
We have digitised collections for local studies libraries, professional associations and institutes, and museums, among them the Wisbech & Fenland Museum, home of Dickens’s manuscript of Great Expectations.
Manuscripts, inventories, burial books, rolls of honour and engineers’ notebooks.
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Dickens’s original handwritten manuscript of Great Expectations, at the Wisbech & Fenland Museum: a novel that can be read beside the printed text, change by change.
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Household inventories from 1703 and a duchess’s travel diaries, scanned, transcribed and made searchable, with software we wrote to help read them.
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Burial books for cemeteries across the British Empire, digitised at The National Archives, from Aleppo to Brompton, for families tracing historic and war graves.
A roll of honour written in gold leaf, scanned under lighting set up specially, so everything written in gold comes out as gold and can be read without handling the original.
The notebooks and findings of the Society of Electrical Engineers, scanned so researchers can go back to the original working, in the engineers’ own hands.
Tell us what you hold, and we will suggest the best way to preserve it.