San Francisco, California (PRWEB) January 24, 2012
BMI Imaging Techniques, a foremost service provider of microfilm scanning, microfiche conversion and doc management remedies, announced that Skamania County Clerk, Washington is making use of the Electronic ReeL microfilm scanning answer.

The County Clerk has a microfilm archive made up of courtroom situation records (primarily probate) from 1869-1970. Sharon Vance, Skamania County Clerk states, When we acquired data requests from this archive, we would drag out the reader printer and film roll and spend time finding the document(s). Inadequate top quality was an concern and in numerous situations we would have to print the information to read them. The County decided to investigate a microfilm scanning resolution.
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After exploring the Digital ReeL microfilm scanning solution at a convention, we had been captivated to the price tag for each roll principle. Once we considered how our image top quality would be improved, we knew it was the proper answer, Vance states.
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Skamania County Clerk shipped its microfilm archive to BMIs California facility where actual, digital replicas of each microfilm roll have been designed. The County Clerk picked Digital ReeLs Cloud Selection, storing the digitally converted documents at BMIs information heart. At the moment, County Clerk scientists log into the Internet, accessing their digital microfilm documents from the Electronic ReeL web interface.

Electronic ReeL Cloud Option Facilitates Disaster Restoration
The County Clerk shops the formal microfilm documents at the Washington Condition Archives. The County Clerk holds a next duplicate of the microfilm archive at its office for research and retrieval requests. Vance states, With Electronic ReeLs Cloud Choice, weve produced a new, electronic duplicate of our data that are now stored at BMIs safe, SAS 70 compliant information middle. We will also shop a tough push of the electronic documents at the Washington State Digital Archives. We will have an added electronic duplicate of our information at a distinct website. Vance carries on, Weve not only made it simpler for our personnel and public to entry these documents, but weve increased our catastrophe restoration strategy simply because these data are digitized, saved and protected in several places.
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Current Micrographic Index and Complete-Text Search Make it Easy to Discover Scenario Documents&#thirteen
Electronic ReeL combines complete-textual content lookup with the first micrographic indexing method, enabling users to quickly locate data in a amount of ways. The County Clerks bodily microfilm documents had been initially organized by circumstance number. In the previous, scientists had to web page through actual physical index books, searching for a title related with a scenario. Once the title was identified, the case variety would let the user to track down the proper, actual physical microfilm roll(s).

Vance states, By digitally scanning the index details and the microfilm to Digital ReeL, the look for for case information is more quickly, less complicated and much more flexible. Researchers can now use the complete-text research of Electronic ReeL to track down specific names in the index pages. When queried, the names will appear in context of their place in the index guides, allowing some preliminary qualification by the person. As soon as the particular identify is found, the corresponding case quantity is recognized. Users can then kind in the situation quantity and deliver up the digitized document of the situation, just as initially introduced on the microfilm. If the textual content of the old index book is not indexed by OCR (e.g. if it was hand-created), consumers can just webpage by means of the electronic index guides in Digital ReeL (just as they would webpage by way of the bodily guide) to discover the location of the situation file reference. Vance states, Report lookups that may well consider thirty minutes or longer in the past are now concluded in a matter of seconds utilizing Electronic ReeL.

Adjustable Grayscale Improves the Graphic Top quality of the Complete Archive
Many of the County Clerk documents are very previous, relationship back into the 1800s. At first, the records had been prepared on onion pores and skin paper. When the documents have been transformed from paper to microfilm many years back, the filming techniques had been not refined and as a consequence, a lot of of the pictures had been challenging to read from the microfilm archive. Sometimes, during a document look for, the photographs found were not readable on the County Clerks microfilm copy and they experienced to request the first microfilm roll from the Washington Condition Archives – which further delayed the document retrieval process. Vance states, Electronic ReeLs adjustable grayscale is extraordinary, enabling us to provide into target a record that was nearly unusable on the physical microfilm. We can now deliver it into emphasis, lighten it, darken it and wonderful tune the graphic into a high quality doc.
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Up coming Measures
In the potential, the County Clerk will be ready to include these digital documents in the Clerk ePass technique. Vance concludes, Our Clerk ePass technique tends to make it attainable for the general public to buy electronically certified data via a protected net-web site on the Web.
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