DIGITAL ARCHIVING EXPERTISE​

SLIDES, NEGATIVES, PRINTS & GLASS PLATES

Brechin has digitized large collections of Negative Slides and Photographic Prints to international archive quality standards. The company has been a leader in adopting state of the art imaging science technology to create the highest quality image files.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & RARE BOOKS

Brechin’s experience in the digitization of Special Collection and Rare Books has been acknowledged internationally. Brechin sends imaging specialists on-site to digitize and work with special collection librarians or archivists involved in the project.

DOCUMENTS & REPORTS

Brechin has digitized millions of pages of government reports and documents. Brechin employees and digitization centres have the required government security clearances to securely handle content.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Brechin combines it's project management and digitization skills to simultaneously manage large conversion projects occuring on-site at multiple archives, libraries and museums.

PHOTOGRAPHY OF ARTIFACTS & ART

Brechin has a team of professional photographers on site at museums shooting and creating digital archives of 3 dimensional artifacts and rare art.

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

Brechin has scanned and digitized over a million pages of bound books and manuscripts. Typically our clients require an archival original file as well as a repurposed OCR multi page PDF file for internet purposes.

MICROFILM

The company has high resolution microfilm scanners that has digitized many millions of microfilm from Archives to Corporations.

MAPS & ENGINEERING DRAWINGS

Brechin has digitized a wide range of maps and engineering drawings. These include old, fragile maps at the Library and Archives Canada as part of the TRC project.

NEWSPAPERS

Brechin has been scanning and digitizing newspapers contained in bound and unbound books or on microfilm for the past 20 years. The newspaper collection ranges from the early 1800’s to present day.