If you have boxes and bins of paper (letters, flyers, cards, legal documents, clippings, thank you cards, school paperwork, old essays, receipts and invoices, tax papers, insurance papers, old credit card statements, kids drawings, etc), I can scan them into a digital collection.
If you have been keeping shoeboxes of old print photos or slides, and have a desire to share digital images from 20 years ago to your family chat (your cousins will screeeeeam) I can make that possible.
Your privacy is important to me (click for more on that topic).
Whatever I’m digitizing for you — I’ll hand you back a tidy, indexed collection of files and folders on a thumbdrive, an external hard drive, or in a secure password-protected electronic package you can download. Your dusty filing boxes can then go into deep storage, and your documents, photos –and memories– can now be accessed or shared on a computer or smartphone. This electronic version of your collection, once duplicated and stored safely offsite, also keeps your memories safe from fire, flood or other disasters.
Archiving is personal
My archiving love started as an accidental collection. All through the 90s and 00s, I was moving through the Vancouver queer world, having fun, getting involved, and incidentally taking pictures of all the folks around me, and keeping all the wee bits of paper, flyers, posters and ticket stubs that came into my possession. A few years ago I looked at a stack of filing boxes higher than Godzilla’s buttocks, and thought “Oh, this could be a wonderful archive.”
In my spare time in the last 13 years of small business ownership (This is a wee in-joke, as I have not had any spare time), I’ve run about 4000 documents and images through my scanners, have still more to go, and am renaming and categorizing as I go. It’s a work in progress. Anyhoo. I’ve got lots of experience in carefully picking ancient staples out. 🙂
Different scan methods for different needs
- A good quality flatbed scanner for photos, slides, delicate originals, and things requiring HIGH-RESOLUTION scans.
- A fancy auto-feed scanner for paper documents, (multi-page, full-colour, double-side — saved as PDF or image format)
Scan Examples (click any to go to detail page)
