PREVENTING FURTHER DAMAGE

The customer needed to maintain an archive of construction drawings relating to their premises.  The drawings were kept in a loft and needed to be made more accessible and stored electronically.  They had originally been printed on thick 'tracing' paper, then tightly rolled.  Every time that a drawing was unrolled for viewing or copying, its condition deteriorated.  Attempts to scan the drawings had added to the damage.

The solution was to microfilm the drawings (non-contact process) then scan the microfilm into digital images, converted into the required size, format etc.  To aid retrieval electronically, an MS-ACCESS database was provided that allowed immediate viewing of any chosen drawing.