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What We Offer

  • Photography has been a powerful method of preserving personal, family, and cultural history for nearly two hundred years. Digitzation enhances preservation, shareability, and creative use options.

    • Printed Photos

    • Photo Albums

    • Negatives

    • Slides and Transparencies

    • Photo Albums

    Archiving Principle: Digitization does not replace the original copy. It provides a backup for improved preservation and opens up new ways these items can be used and shared.

  • Records are among the most significant digitizable materials. They are generally unpublished and unique and, therefore, extremely vulnerable to permanent loss.

    • Documents

    • Letters

    • Maps

    • Manuscripts

    • Ephemera (funeral programs, birth announcements, tickets, receipts, etc.)

  • Book scanning is a great way to preserve bound volumes. It is also essential for employing Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

    • Journals

    • Scrapbooks

    • yearbooks

    • vintage books

  • Your professional, personal, or heritage artwork carries particular meaning. Digitizing these works provides provenance and copyright protections, new business uses, and a means to preserve singular items and share them with people who may otherwise have no access to them.

    • Paintings

    • Drawings

    • Sculpture

    • Collage

  • Film and video are fragile. Prone to hardware obsolescence, breakage, and disintegration, these audio-visual assets are at the top of the list when considering what to digitize first.

    • 8mm and Super 8 film reels

    • DVDs and DVRs

    If we do not digitize your format, we will connect you with someone who does.

  • Capturing an image of an object provides a secondary form of preservation and helps establish provenance for archival, insurance, and business uses.

    • Sculpture

    • Vases

    • Furniture

    • Clothing

    • Jewelry

    • Collectibles

    • Ephemera (badges, pins, medals, pop-up cards, etc.)

    Active Archiving Idea - Object capture makes a 3D asset accessible in interesting new ways. Use the new format to share cultural and family history in a virtual setting, to facilitate research, or to incorporate the object into your own art projects.

Digitization is an important part of modern archiving and asset management. Watermark ADI uses a variety of equipment and processes to ensure material safety and excellent digital renderings to meet the needs for whatever use-case you have in mind. We also offer expanded metada for better discoverability, intellectual property protection, and long-term preservation.

Vintage slide viewer with on and off switch, slide film negatives scattered, and a handwritten note titled "Minette" listing slide descriptions.

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