Digitization Capabilities & Services

The Maryland State Archives offers digitization services that comply with archival standards. Please contact Kathryn Baringer at Kathryn.Baringer@maryland.gov for assistance.

These digitization services are available for a wide range of record types including, but not limited to:

Paper Scanning

Office documents
Letter, legal, and large format maps and drawings
Archival manuscripts

Bound Book Scanning

Bound and loose newspapers
Experience with all size books and bindings

Archival Preservation Scanning

Fragile, rare, and/or loose documents
Experience digitizing fragile, rare, and one-of-a-kind materials including:

Loose papers, bound books, records, and newspapers
Oversized maps, drawings, and large-format materials
Speciality film formats such as glass-plate negatives and sheet negatives

Microfilm Scanning

16mm and 35mm (REELS)
Positive or negative
Bi-tonal output to: TIFF (G4), PDF (all single/multi), and PDF/A
Grayscale output to: uncompressed TIFF/JPEG (true 256 shades of gray), JPEG 2000, PDF (single/multi-page), and PDF/A

Output/Additional Services

Output Services

Delivery via FTP or external drives for customer post-processing
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for full-text searches
Embedded metadata
Variety of export file options based on customer needs

This web site is provided as a courtesy of the Maryland State Archives. As you develop your records management program, you should consult with your agency’s Records Officer .