Microform digitization service: Microfilms & Microfiches

Microfilm is a type of microphotographic film, used in the archiving and data retention industry. This type of media stores documents that are reduced by 24 or 36 times (or even more) to generate micro-scale copies of the original documents. It is part of the microform family, alongside microfiche. The main advantage of microfilm is its lifespan, which is estimated at more than 500 years. It was in 1936 that the American Library began approving microfilm and it was there that the technology began to develop. A reel (height is 16 mm, 35 mm or 105 mm, the length of the microfilm is variable but it is generally 30.5 m or 66 m) can contain up to 2500 documents. This makes it easy to store tens of millions of archive pages in small spaces. But microfilm remains a challenge for daily use (research, consultation, duplication, sharing, etc.).

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Microfiche uses the same technology as microfilm. It is generally available in sheets of 148 x 105 mm.

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Digitization of Microfiches