Scanning Services

Negative, slide and photo scanning services offered in London and across the UK from Pearl Scan. Enabling you to create a digital image archive library.

Slide, Negative and Photo Scanning Services in London

Our services can scan and convert your photos, negatives and 35mm slides into a digital file format, enabling you to instantly view and share your images.

Photographic formats that we can scan and convert into a digital format:

  • 35mm slide to digital conversion
  • Quarter plate negatives
  • Half plate negatives
  • Transparencies
  • Glass plate negatives
  • Printed photos (both loose and in albums)

Photo scanning service

Digitising your old photos, slides and negatives into a digital image with our professional slide, negative and photo scanning services in London and across the UK.

With using our high quality photo scanners we can produce high resolution images that can be archived to digital storage.

Our photo scanning service can be tailored to how you want your photos to be scanned, the digital format you want them converted to and how you want them delivered back to you, for example, your digital files uploaded to a USB stick which can then be securely delivered to you.

We can collect your negatives, slides and photos from anywhere in London and throughout the UK. Our scanning services are certified to ISO standards to ensure your photo images are continually kept secure and confidential throughout he scanning process.

Benefits of digitising your negatives, slides and photos

There's many advantages from scanning and digitising your negatives, slides and printed photos with our photo scanning services.

The benefits of instantly accessing to view, edit and share your digital images and having them digitised with our negative, slide and photo scanning services.

Secure Backups

Securing backups of your precious photos, whether they're a family collection or a national historic archive. Having the knowledge that the old images are digitally secured online gives you one less thing to worry about.

Sharing

Having the possibilities to instantly share and view images with friends, family members and even colleges via social media, blogs or used in presentations.

Heritage photo scanning and digitisation

Our photo scanning services also digitises heritage photos, slides and negatives.

If you are looking for heritage and vintage photography scanning, check out our dedicated heritage scanning services page for more information.

Contact us

Contact us today with you photo scanning enquiries by phoning 0207 183 1885, emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or using our online Contact Us Form.

Scanning and digitising books, magazines, manuscripts, journals and newspapers to a digital platform. A book scanning service offered in London and across the UK.

Book Scanning Services in London

A large collection of books that can be converted to eBooks with our book scanning services in London and across the UK.

We have been providing expert book scanning services in London and throughout the UK for over 16 years. Within our scanning bureau, we take exceptional care in handling your books, while we scan them and convert to any digital formats, such as Microsoft Word, TIFF, PDF Searchable, Amazon, Apple etc. Whether you are looking to simply digitise your book and convert it to PDF, digitise a big collection of books for digital archiving or possess a rare historical book that needs preserving, we have the infrastructure to fulfill any requirements. 

We can scan anything

  • Bound books
  • Unbound books
  • Heritage books
  • Archives
  • Novels
  • Textbooks
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Manuscripts
  • Comics
  • Manuals
  • Journals

Book scanning methods

Depending on individual requirements and type of books, we can digitise them by using either a destructive or non-destructive digitisation method.

Destructive

Destructive book scanning service in London and across the UK. Discover the advantages of unbound book scanning.

Destructive is the most commonly used book scanning method. Before the scanning takes place, the binding of the book is carefully removed, by using a professional guillotine machine, which allows to free up the pages and scan them with a specialist book scanner, up to A0 size.

  • Quick scanning
  • Cost effective
  • Good quality

Non-Destructive

Bound book scanning service in London and across the UK. Discover the advantages of bound book scanning.

Non-Destructive book scanning is best suited for books that are valuable and non-replaceable, as the book is kept completely intact throughout the whole scanning process. For this method we use specialist overhead scanners, that allow us to safely scan books in size of up to A2.

Specialised flat-bed book scanner we use to scan and digitise your bound-books with our book scanning services in London and across the UK.

See our guide to our non-destructive book scanning and digitisation

  • Special gloves approach
  • Undamaged books
  • Reduced lighting

Optical Character Recognition

By using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, we can make your books fully text searchable and editable. The advantages of using OCR for your scanned books is that it will be easier for you to find your favourite book every time.

The advantages of book scanning

  • Gives you the opportunity to sell or republish your written work in an online format.
  • With having digital formats, you have the possibilities of editing and re-editing your work at any time.
  • To have your favourite book safe and secure as a digital copy.
  • Makes your process easier to share your books and magazines with whoever you like.
  • Giving yourself instant access to your favourite titles wherever and whenever.
  • From digitising your books, manuscripts, journals, etc. This enables you to archive or preserve any collection you have.

We can convert your books into various different digital platforms to suit your requirements.

Contact us today

For a free book scanning quotation, contact us by calling 0207 183 1885, emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or using our online Contact Us Form.

ISO accredited data capture and document scanning services provided for companies in Oxford and throughout the UK from Pearl Scan.

Document Scanning Services in Oxford

Document scanning is transforming the way many businesses in Oxford operate. It benefits from scanning your documents:

  • Preserve old documents
  • Remove clutter
  • Increase productivity
  • Save costs
  • Reduce use of paper

Join the wide range of businesses in Oxford that are already experiencing the benefits of working with digital files today.

Document scanning services in Oxford and the UK from Pearl Scan are helping businesses transform to a paperless office.

Innovative document scanning technology

We have extensive industry experience, combining this knowledge with innovative technology to bring our high quality document scanning services to Oxford. We provide scalable document scanning solutions, as well as more tailored services such as:

Get in touch

View our full range of document scanning solutions at the Pearl Scan website. You can get in touch with us online or ring a member of our team today: 0845 225 5923.

Aperture card scanning services offered throughout London and across the UK. Helping organisations create a digital archive of aperture card data.

Aperture Card Scanning Services in London

PDF format is just one digital format we can convert your aperture cards to with our aperture card scanning services that are offered throughout London and across the UK.

Our aperture card scanning service gives businesses who still have drawings especially engineering drawings the opportunity to digitally archive their data.

Whilst some may feel that in terms of archiving, aperture cards can still produce an important role, where as digital systems are gradually becoming more of an advantage today as the digital age increases year after year.

Film media can deteriorate over time like most materials, meaning critical information can be lost. The type of industry workers that can suffer from this are most likely:

  • Manufacturers
  • Architects
  • Engineers

The benefits of scanning your aperture cards

We can extract the data from your aperture cards to convert your aperture cards into digital images. Enabling you to create a digital archive for your aperture card data.

Scanning aperture cards and converting them to digital images has many advantages. Firstly, you will eliminate the need for a reader-printer, a piece of equipment which is out of date and single purpose. You will also have access to your files anywhere, anytime from a variety of devices on a digital platform such as PDF and TIFF.

After scanning the aperture card, there's a great possibility for significant image enhancement and clean up with often the digital image looking better than the original image.

The benefits of electronic document storage are endless, as don’t forget it’s also a safer way to store important documents, giving you a reliable back-up.

Free management software for your aperture digital data

Safe guard your aperture card data by taking advantage of our document management software after your aperture card data has been captured and converted to a digital image.

In addition to scanning aperture cards, we also offer a digital data management software to help you store and retrieve your newly converted digital files. Halogen, our free document management software, is offered to all of our clients to help you make the most of our scanning services.

An experienced aperture card scanning company

For over 15 years, we’ve been working with some of the UK’s most reputable companies and organisations. Having have the capability to work with small or bulk-volume scanning projects is just one of our key strengths, so whether you have just one aperture card or a national archive, we can help you safeguard your aperture card files and achieve the digital archive system you require

Contact us

Contact us today to receive a free quotation by calling 0207 183 1885, emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or using our online Contact Us Form.

Pearl Scan provides professional secure and confidential data capture and document scanning services to the Midlands and throughout the UK.

Document Scanning Services in The Midlands

Businesses in the Midlands have been enjoying the multiple benefits the document scanning services brings to business processes. Embracing digital means, you can:

  • Instant access to digital your digital files.
  • Increase employee productivity across the board.
  • Remove the risk of daily human error.
  • Reduce the use of paper throughout the business.
  • Future proof your office, for years to come.

Our document scanning service operates in and around the Midlands so we can help drive forward your business in this digital world.

An experienced document scanning company for companies in the Midlands

We use the latest document scanning and conversion technology, combined with our many years of industry experience, to bring our high-quality document scanning services to businesses in the Midlands. On top of our scalable document scanning solutions, we also offer other specialist services such as:

Pearl Scan document scanning and data capture solutions in the Midlands.

Get in touch

Browse our full range of document scanning services at the Pearl Scan website, or ring a member of our Midlands scanning team today: 0121 285 1900.

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A free trial

A free trial of our document scanning and data capture services in London, Manchester and throughout the UK.

We offer a free trial of our data capture and scanning services in London to prospective clients as proof of concept. Find out more:

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Why choose Pearl Scan

Document scanning | Audits

We are backed up by external quality and security audits. Our operations have been audited and approved by many NHS, Local Authorities, Private blue chip companies and we pride ourselves on the high levels of quality and security we provide to each and every one of our clients.

Our data capture and document scanning services offered in London are accredited to industry standards.