Microfiche Scanning

The word "microfiche" is based on the French word fiche, which means "index card". Microfiche is a piece of microfilm, typically 105mm wide which is cut to 148mm long or about 4" x 6". Microfiche contains photographs of many pages of material that requires a magnification system to read. Reduction sizes vary; see below.  Microfilm and microfiche has long been the standard for data archiving.

Our standard services include:

• Convert Microfiche to Digital
• Duplicate Microfiche
• Digitize Microfiche and convert to OCR’d PDF files.
• Create Jacketed Fiche
• Create COM Fiche

Microfilm and Microfiche Reduction

There are 2 major types of microfiche, Source and COM.

Source Microfiche
Note orientation of images compared to COM microfiche.
24X reduction source microfiche = 14 images across x 7 images down
36X reduction source microfiche = 24 images across x 12 images down
42X reduction source microfiche = 25 images across x 13 images down
48X reduction source microfiche = 28 images across x 16 images down



COM Microfiche
Note orientation of images compared to source microfiche.
24X reduction source microfiche = 9 images across x 8 images down with 62 data frames
27X reduction source microfiche = 9 images across x 10 images down with 79 data frames
42X reduction source microfiche = 14 images across x 16 images down with 207 data frames
48X reduction source microfiche = 16 images across x 18 images down with 269 data frames