Aviation - What we Do

OUR RANGE OF SERVICES WILL BRING YOUR CORPORATE HISTORY ALIVE, AND ENABLE YOUR ORGANISATION TO MOVE FORWARD USING THE KNOWLEDGE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PAST!

SDS-ES AVIATION WILL:

• PRESERVE your records in the event of a catastrophic failure (e.g. flood, fire,
rodents/ insects, human error, vandalism, computer damage, viruses, etc.)

• CONVERT your data into useful and valuable Information. Sterile stored data transformed into active information – a new, vital, source of knowledge.

• GENERATE REVENUE if you opt for the creation of saleable products on CD-ROM and/or pay-for-access to third-party users e.g. researchers.

 

Scanning

Paper documents
The range of paper we can process includes:
 Normal A4 paper
(We have the capacity to scan and electronically convert between 12,000 and 40,000 A4 sheets of paper per day).
 Black and white
Documents from the size of a business card through to A0 in size including engineering diagrams, maps, architectural plans etc.
 Colour
We are one of the few organisations in the country who own an A0 colour scanner. This means that colour documents from the size of a business card through to A0 (47 by 33 inches) in size can be scanned in and digitally stored.
 Colour photographs (up to 3000 per day)
We can deal with hundreds of colour photographs ranging from the size of a postage stamp through to anything as large as 1 metre in width by 20 metres in length

Electronic and other non-paper documents
We also have the facility to convert existing microfiche and microfilm archives to electronic files and incorporate them into the resultant document management solution (DMS). This includes conversion of microfiche, aperture cards & 16mm or 35 mm roll film.

Photographs
All types and formats of photographs can be successfully scanned.

Scanning Standard
We scan all paper-based documentation at mainly 300dpi (depending on quality of original).

 

 

 Digitisation

Our services ensure the maximum use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to enable the fullest potential of text search and interrogation facilities.

The OCR capability is the key factor in making the sterile information stored away in archives being brought alive again! It is what enables the fast search routines of the archives to be undertaken, and the locked-away information converted into knowledge for all users.

We tend to scan to Adobe Acrobat PDF Files and create two-tiered PDF files: the top level being the 100% facsimile image; the bottom level being the OCR text.

The end result will be a multi-page PDF file for each file/record.

For each PDF File created, we will also provide an associated .txt or .rtf file with the OCR text, in order that it can be imported into the on-line retrieval solution for fast searching capabilities.

Important:
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is usually not possible inn respect of handwritten texts, or with a small number of unusual print fonts.

 

 STORING, INDEXING AND SEARCHING

We will replicate your own filing system for easy retrieval of your information and records.

We understand that it is all very well having 20,000 sheets of A4 paper or 3000 A0 drawings on one CD-ROM, but you do need to be able to retrieve them, quickly and efficiently.

Thus, our software indexing solutions can mirror your current manual filing system 100%.

Take the example of an electronic filing cabinet. A filing cabinet contains drawers, which in turn contain folders, which in turn contain binders, which in turn contains documents.

Any of these sections can be searched upon by the index fields you specify for each document within any level or by moving down the hierarchical tree until you get to the section you require.