Microfilm Digitization Project Enhances Efficiency, Customer Service
Onsite scanning of 60,000+ microfilm reels also adds a layer of records accessibility In May of 2016, The Crowley Company (Crowley) was contacted by Primerica, a leading provider of financial services to middle-income households in the United States and Canada, to discuss the backfile conversion of their insurance policy microfilm collection. At the time, the process to retrieve insurance records was – like that of most financial and insurance firms – enormously time consuming. Simplified, the process included: Receiving an internal...

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UScan Digitizes Engineering Data, Corporate Archives of Major Food Producer
A leading U.S. food producer recently purchased a UScan microform scanner, designed by The Crowley Company’s Wicks and Wilson division, to help retrieve and archive key engineering drawings. These documents, some decades old, were created to build and maintain custom-designed processing equipment that is still in use today. Read More »
Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards
Crowley Imaging recently completed a high-volume, on-site digitization project scanning nearly 40 million archival documents in just under four years using InoTec 400-series document scanners. Known for their 24/7 daily duty work cycles, high throughput and low maintenance requirements, these scanners are considered a tool for records managers, service bureaus and health care systems. Read More »
Daughters of the American Revolution
In 2000, the DAR embarked on an ambitious and vital plan to preserve these membership applications for future generations of members and researchers. Working closely with the Crowley service bureau, DAR researched the best approach to preservation and developed a plan to create a set of digital images and microfiche for each application. Read More »
Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology
The BSO team worked with BizTech Solutions who provided pre-sales expertise to assist them in defining requirements and understanding currently available technology in the micrographic marketplace. The BSO team ultimately selected the UScan+ Universal Film Scanner from Wicks and Wilson to handle the archive access. Read More »
SmallTownPapers, Inc
Robinson Newspapers is in the process of working with SmallTownPapers to digitize a portion of its archives dating back more than 80 years. Read More »
Bound Book and Microfilm Scanning for Presidential Libraries
Among numerous prestigious organizations, Crowley Digitization Services has had the privilege to digitize collections from several Presidential libraries. Two recent projects encompassed the digitization of papers and manuscript scanning of materials from the estates of Presidents Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Read More »
The Life Photo Archive Sees the Light of Day via Crowley Digitization Services
Known as LIFE’s Photo Archive, the project is a digitization of the historic photographic images taken for LIFE magazine, which printed from 1936 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000. The collection includes color and black and white negatives, transparencies, reflective prints and other photographic material. Read More »
UK Border Agency Digitization Transformation Success
Reprinted with permission from Genus Group, a Crowley UK – formerly referred to as Wicks and Wilson – reseller. Originally posted in 2016, this case study features the InoTec 4×3 document scanner series and the 8850 microfilm scanners, which have since been replaced by the InoTec 300-Series scanners and the Mekel Technology microfilm scanners, respectively. Genus is delighted to report on a successful project recently undertaken by the UK Border Agency at its Landing Card Unit (LCU), based in Croydon....

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One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images
A retired manufacturing engineer, Tom Tryniski devotes his time to digitizing historical newspaper from microfilm using a Wicks and Wilson Scanstation production-level microfilm scanner. This may be a one-man operation, but in the past 15 years, he has scanned an astonishing 26 million+ pages of newspaper. Read More »
How Much Personal GDPR Information Is Being Held On Your Microfilms?
Editor’s note: This blog was authored by Paul Negus of the Genus Group, a Crowley UK – formerly referred to as Wicks and Wilson – distributor. It is reposted with permission. June 5, 2017 The GDPR Conference Europe was held recently in London and it was surprising to get the feeling that a lot of businesses have not prepared for or are even aware of GDPR. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has been around for a while, having been introduced by...

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U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
In 2004, NARA Preservation and Imaging Specialist, Steven Puglia, along with Jeffrey Reed and Erin Rhodes, authored “Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images.” This guideline, an update to an earlier document, intended to provide a technical foundation and standardization for digitization activities. Read More »
Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art
Providing maximum access to the collections was – and is – key to achieving AAA’s goal of becoming the premier resource on art history for researchers, historians and the public. Richardson and Fleischman could never have imagined the advent of the internet and its power to connect people and information across the world. Read More »
Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
In July 2006, Fran O’Donnell and the Andover-Harvard Theological Library (AHTL) received a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (the Museum) asking to explore the possibility of digitizing and microfilming the records of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees archived at Harvard Divinity School. Read More »
Chancery Records Index
The reformatted images—whether digital scans or microfilm—can be viewed at the Library of Virginia, at the circuit court clerk's office or, in the case of digital images, from any internet-connected computer. Read More »
23,400+ Miles of Microfilm: Crowley Scans Social Security Records
1.2 Million Reels of Microfilm Scanned in Less Than Two Years with Crowley Digitization Services Over the past several years, The Crowley Company (Crowley) has been an effective partner with the Social Security Administration (SSA) on several massive inventory and digitizing projects that were successfully completed within budget and within record time thanks to the experience of Crowley’s Digitization Services team. In February 2017, Crowley worked on a massive microfilm inventory project to begin inspecting, creating an inventory and barcoding an...

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Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader
The PAL conversion project began at the Springfield, Ill. headquarters, but soon moved to NARA in College Park, Md., which held many project-relative images. Read More »
WHITE PAPER: Dealing with our Aging and Deteriorating Microfilm Collections
At The Crowley Company, we’re seeing an increased number of requests for services regarding aging microfilm collections. The requests range from inventory assessment to digitization to image hosting. This uptick in requests – a trend, in my opinion – brings with it the need to understand the history of microfilm and how and why today’s collections may be in peril. Read More »
Wyoming State Engineers Office
This brochure is intended to illustrate the many benefits of an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) utilizing the combined resources of The Crowley Company, a world leader in commercial imaging solutions, and enChoice, a premier software developer and solution provider. This synergism resulted in a very impressive EDMS installation... Read More »
Bound contracts integrated into the digital inbox: Sparkasse LeerWittmund in Lower Saxony leverages the advantages of the overhead scanner
The groundwork for integrated digital processing was initiated internally several years ago. “Continuous optimization and investment in innovative technologies means we have been able to drastically reduce the amount of paper documents our staff handles on a day-to-day basis,” says Fokko Schwab, a member of the organization division. Read More »

UScan Digitizes Engineering Data, Corporate Archives of Major Food Producer

Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards

Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology

Bound Book and Microfilm Scanning for Presidential Libraries

The Life Photo Archive Sees the Light of Day via Crowley Digitization Services

UK Border Agency Digitization Transformation Success

One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images

How Much Personal GDPR Information Is Being Held On Your Microfilms?

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art

Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

23,400+ Miles of Microfilm: Crowley Scans Social Security Records

Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with our Aging and Deteriorating Microfilm Collections

Bound contracts integrated into the digital inbox: Sparkasse LeerWittmund in Lower Saxony leverages the advantages of the overhead scanner

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A Call from the Past: Embracing the History and Future of Aperture Card Scanners

August 14th, 2023

It all started when I received a voice message from Walter (Walt) Spicer, a former records management professional from Napa, California. In his short (but informative) message, he told me the story of his patent for a machine which created aperture cards and asked if The Crowley Company (Crowle...

Overhead Scanners are Irreplaceable for Document Digitization

July 20th, 2023

The following blog was originally posted by Zeutschel GmbH and is reposted with permission. Scanning services providers are currently facing major challenges. More and more projects require the parallel processing of difficult and mixed documents. In addition, there is a clear trend towards...

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