35mm aperture cards approx. 187mm x 82.5mm in size usually contain a photograph of an engineering or architects drawing or plan, they can however contain other material such as a book page or a document. One aperture card usually contains 1 landscape 35mm frame.

DocuSense is able to convert your 35mm aperture cards to a digital format. We use an optical enlargement technique during the digitisation process to enlarge the microfilm image back to it’s original document size for maximum clarity rather than directly scanning the microfilm.

Even if your microfilm doesn’t look like our examples, our equipment and operatives are flexible and can capture most things. So if you have any questions, you can message us using the form on the home or contact pages.

Input Film Specifications:

35mm Aperture Cards approx. 187mm x 82.5mm

Positive or Negative Polarity

Processing Specifications (as required):

Optical Enlargement to Original Document Size

Dynamic Image Density Compensation (on the fly scan quality correction)

Image Crop & Deskew (trimming and straightening)

Page Splitting

Output Specifications (as required):

Resolution: 200-600DPI

Image Type: Bitonal (Black & White, 1 bit), Greyscale (8 or 16 bit)

File Formats: TIFF, PDF, JPEG (lossless or compressed, other file formats available on request)