Digitisation

Service description

Digitisation

We offer digitisation of paper materials from materials belonging to the National Library of Finland collection or customer's own materials.We also manufacture digital recordings from microfilm, microfiche, photographic materials and sound recordings.We are specialised in the digitisation of large collections as well as materials in poor condition and requiring careful handling.

We also offer post-processing services for digitised materials, for example, text recognition and PDF conversion. Additional services enrich digital materials, refine their characteristics, enable access or store materials as microfilm.Training and guidance  are also available as additional services. 

We can digitise extremely varied paper materials from frail pamphlets to books that are difficult to open.The most commonly digitised materials are books, ephemera, magazines, photographs and sound recordings. It is also possible to digitise large volumes and materials requiring special handling as well as archive materials.With a test batch, we can test digitisation for the purposes of a possible larger project for the customer.

However, the library cannot provide its customers with digital copies of copyrighted materials (Copyright Act section 16a§). Manufacture of such materials is possible, if the customer has attained an advance permission from the copyright holder.In this case, the customer must also sign a pledge form related to duplication of copyrighted materials.

We are happy to provide additional information and always negotiate with the customer at the ordering stage.Large-scale digitisation projects are priced according quotations.