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Personal Digitization: Digitizing Equipment

Digitizing Equipment

This page will feature some of the various different tools and technology available to you to digitize your materials. They will provide basic information about each device as well as what materials it can digitize and what format it save those materials in.

Documents and Images

Epson Fast Foto

  • Digitizes: printed photos and documents up to 8"x10". Can also do Polaroids and panoramic photos (8.5" x 36" maximum). Bulk load capability
  • Saves to: BMP, JPG, PCT, PDF, PNG, TIFF
  • Resolution: 300 to 1200 dpi

Epson Perfection Flatbed Scanner

  • Digitizes: any photo format, documents, photographic film strip, or slides up to 8.5 x 11.7"
  • Saves to: BMP, JPG, PCT, PDF, PNG, TIFF
  • Resolution: 300 to 12,800 dpi (1200 dpi or less recommended for most items)

Wolverine 8-in-1 Film-to-Digital Converter

  • Digitizes: photo film strip including 8mm, 35mm, 126, 127, 110, APS, Super 8; slides including 35mm, 126, 127, 110, APS
  • Saves to: JPG
  • Resolution: 20 MP

CZUR Book Scanner with basic editing software

  • Digitizes: books, scrapbooks, photo albums, and documents (text or image) up to 16.5"x11.7"
  • Saves to: JPG, PDF, searchable PDF, TIFF
  • Resolution: 300 to 1000 dpi

Contex Wide-Format Scanner with NextImage editing software

  • Digitizes: documents, maps, blueprints, posters, etc up to 44" in width. Feed scanner, flat items only
  • Saves to: BMP, CALS, DWF, JP2, JPG, JPX, PDF, PDF-A, TIFF, TIFF-G3, TIFF-G4
  • Resolution: 100 TO 1200 dpi 

Audio/Visual

 ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 

  • Digitizes: VHS, DVDs, camcorder media files (camcorder + compatible cord required)
  •  Saves to: MP4

Emerson ZV427EM5 VCR & DVD Combo Recorder and Player

  • Can play VHS tapes and DVDs
  • Capable of copying VHS Tapes onto a DVD
  • Exclusively uses DVD-R for burning DVDs, does not work with DVD+R or DVD+RW

Wolverine 8mm and Super 8 Film Reel-to-Digital Converter 

  • Digitizes: 8mm and Super 8 video film reels, 3" and 5"
  • Saves to: MP4
  • These conversions are silent videos, there is no sound. 

Reshow Walkman Cassette Tape Player

  • Used in digitizing of audio cassettes
  • Transmits audio to audio software for recording and saving.
  • Commonly used in tandem with Audacity for audio capture

Microform/Floppy Disk

Floppy Disk Reader to copy/transfer old files on Floppy Disk. 

  • Copies files from Floppy Disk to hard drive and/or external storage devices.
  • File updating/conversion may be need after copying files to open them

ScanPro Microfilm/Fiche Reader

  • Digitizes: microfilm including 35mm, 16mm and microfiche
  • Saves to: PDF, TIFF, JPG
  • Resolution: 150 to 2000 dpi