16mm roll film is primarily used to capture and record original paper documents up to A3 size that were created by manual methods. Documents, especially ones that have signatures such as delivery notes, contracts, employment records, sales invoices, purchase invoices,  client files, hospital records, etc. have usually been committed to film to meet statutory archival retention requirements.

Depending on the original capturing format, ie: simplex or duplex microfilming. A normal roll of 16mm microfilm can contain between 2000 to 5000 images. Frequently this microform is stored on open reels, cartridges and cassettes.

35mm roll film is generally used capturing large format drawings up to A0 in size although it is not uncommon to find broad sheet newspapers and oversized books recorded on 35mm microfilm. The standard length of 35mm microfilm is 30 metres and depending on the original document size and film format can contain between 600 and 800 images.  This microform is normally stored in open reel format.

Our industry knowledge and experience has been gained over many decades. Our professional operations personnel and processes are well versed in microfilm technology and digital imaging. You may have microfilm files that contain vital information from years past, but is still critical to your operations today.

Equipped with the industry’s most sophisticated equipment and software we can scan all 16mm and 35mm film formats, including those contained within 3M microfilm cartridges.

Scan on Demand Service; Datastor also offers to store your microforms and upon request, we can retrieve and scan your desired microfilm data and e-mail the images to you.  Alternatively, the images can be exported directly into our hosted EDM solution for viewing on-line or your own document management system read more

Output media: CD, DVD and all other standard media formats

Output formats: Group 4 TIFF, JPEG, PDF