Book Scanning
Converting your book collection into a searchable digital archive preserves your books, allows you to make your collection more accessible, and frees up tons of storage space.
Digitizing your book collection is a simple and convenient way to protect them. Books don’t last forever. Out-of-print books can be impossible to replace. Converting your collection is an affordable way to preserve your books while making them accessible. We capture books of all sizes. We can preserve your book collection and the precious history it contains.
ADM Digital Archiving
AMERICAN DIGITAL MEMORIES is dedicated to protecting your history. We offer affordable preservation packages that include a remarkable number of features. Other companies charge double their rates or even more to perform the array of additional services that we include absolutely free when we scan your bound books and yearbooks. We provide so many extras at no charge because we want to do more than just keep your costs low. We want to transform your collection into an easy-to-use, high-quality digital library that will last forever. A digital archive from AMERICAN DIGITAL MEMORIES is a wonderful way to make your books and yearbooks accessible without compromising the integrity of your collection. See below all the features included with our basic digitization service.
American Digital Memories offers FREE round-trip FedEx shipping for projects exceeding $5,000.00. With FedEx, the Partner can expect safe and secure delivery of both the asset and deliverable.
We digitize books of any size or age. Our overhead imaging system has stationary scanning beds that capture professional grade images without damaging your books. Preserving your original books is important to us, and we take the utmost care to digitize your collection in a manner that does not damage the spines or pages.
American Digital Memories beautifully renders your books in color. Our basic pricing covers scanning your books at a publisher-quality resolution of 400dpi.
American Digital Memories employs a rigorous quality assurance protocol to ensure that every page scans properly and that your images are as clear as the original. We split dual-page images into individual pages for accurate numbering and indexing. We also rotate every image to an upright position. We adjust the skew of the images so they are straight for quality presentation.
Our standard optimization service enhances the viewing quality of your images. We check the focus, brightness, color, and contrast of every image and adjust them as necessary to ensure your images are clear, crisp, and sharp. We go to great lengths to ensure your assets are as clear as the original.
Navigating your digital collection is quick and simple. We sort, label, and name every asset for easy browsing, and we number every page for your convenience. With our turnkey service, there is no need to presort.
For all of our Partners – depending on the size of their project – we offer to place their deliverables on an external USB hard drive. For projects over $5,000.00 that drive is FREE. As an additional option, we plan to offer cloud delivery soon!
We find that some of our Partners don’t want their assets returned after we digitize them. If you no longer want your assets, American Digital Memories will dispose of them upon request.