Large maps, plans and drawings take up valuable storage space. They are not easily retrieved, copied or viewed in their original paper-based format.

CDR Group's large format scanning service converts any large format, plan, map or drawing securely and confidentially into a format that can be stored, shared and archived on your existing IT system.

Our scanning equipment is ideal for creating digital images of Development Control Documents, Engineering Drawings, Architectural Drawings, Large Manuscripts, Registers, Plans, Maps, Posters, Newspapers, and Cemetery Plots. The scanning equipment has the following capabilities:

• Any size paper up to A0 and Emperor (max 44 inches wide)
• Unlimited length (for example plans of tunnels or bridges)
• Black and white, greyscale and 24 bit colour conversions
• Any resolution up to 800 DPI
• All the standard graphic formats including TIFF, JPEG and PDF.
• Crop, De-skew and Georectify
• Image reduction (thumbnails)
• Image enhancement
• GIS Preparation (Register and Georeference)
• Seamless capacity (stitch and join images)

The benefits of scanning are:

• Reduced storage space and storage costs
• Scanned documents may be viewed by multiple users simultaneously
• Increased staff efficiency, reduced manpower costs
• Security of data from fire, flood and disaster
• Rapid retrieval of documents from anywhere
• Reduced copying and distribution costs
• Thumbnails of documents can be easily created
• Control over who has access to your documents
• No misplaced, misfiled or lost documents.
• No damage to originals -"digitals do not deteriorate"

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