Professional heritage and archival digitisation
OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE

Heritage, Archival &
Digitisation Specialists

Professional digitisation for corporate, heritage, institutional and family collections.

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Corporate and business archive digitisation
CORPORATE & BUSINESS

Protecting Your
Important Archives

Secure in-house digitisation of documents, photographs, audio, video and legacy media.

Corporate Services
Historical archive digitisation
HERITAGE & ARCHIVES

Preserving History
for the Future

Specialist scanning and digitisation for libraries, archives, museums and heritage collections.

Heritage Services
Family archive digitisation
FAMILY COLLECTIONS

Your Memories.
Carefully Preserved.

From family photographs and documents to VHS, cine film, slides, negatives and audio tapes.

Family Services

Professional Heritage, Archival & Digitisation Services

Providing a multi-award-winning professional heritage, archival and digitisation service in Oxford, UK for corporate, heritage and consumer collections.

We specialise in:

  • Family Archives — paper, audio-video, cine and photographs
  • Government & Corporate Documents
  • Photographic Film
  • Paper & Parchment
  • Books & Scrapbooks
  • Digital Media
  • Broadcast Audio, Video & Motion Picture Film

From a single family wedding VHS tape to large corporate and heritage projects, our digitisation and archiving specialists provide professional solutions for preserving important collections.

Our state-of-the-art facility just outside Oxford provides secure in-house storage for your archives. Our experienced engineers and archive technicians digitise materials to the highest levels of quality and preservation.

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Their friendly approach to me, as a consumer client was wonderful. I brought my VHS and photographs in and they were more than happy to support my precious family archive. I felt confident leaving them in their care, especially given the clients they work with.

— Ian Jones, Consumer Client


The Oxford Union archive book digitisation

Photographic Film Digitisation

A key part of the process involved specialist removal of the journal spines, freeing the individual pages from their bindings so they could be separated, handled safely and prepared for professional scanning. This enabled consistent, high-quality digital capture while minimising stress on the fragile pages. The prepared journals were then ready for 600 dpi TIFF archival scanning, creating preservation-quality digital masters for future online access and research.

Oxfordshire County Council Parchment Archive

Parchment A0 Ordnance Digitisation 

Our professional archive technicians digitised a large archive of A0 parchment Ordnance Survey maps for Oxfordshire County Council, using specialist scanning techniques to carefully capture these fragile historic documents. The resulting high-resolution digital files were prepared for the Council’s online heritage platform, improving public and research access while helping to preserve the original maps for future generations.

St John's College Document Scanning Aarchive

Student Records Digitisation

We provide St John’s College the perfect solution for digitising their student records. Our services offer secure, high-volume scanning, converting paper files into accurately indexed digital records. Documents were prepared, batch scanned and quality checked before being organised to the College’s requirements and securely uploaded to its database.

Kingston Heritage local history collection

Blenheim Palace Heritage

For over 10 years, the Oxford Duplication Centre has provided specialist digitisation including rare books, fragile media, glass plates, A0+ maps and motion film. Our technicians use specialist equipment and careful handling techniques to digitise these historically significant collections to National Archives standards, creating high-quality digital assets for preservation and future access.

Royal College of Nursing archive

Broadcast Audio and Video Digitisation

The Oxford Duplication Centre provides ongoing specialist digitisation services for Warner Music Group, converting broadcast audio and video tape archives into professional preservation and access formats. Outputs include 10-bit and ProRes 422 HQ preservation masters, alongside MPEG-4/H.264 access files, creating high-quality digital assets for the long-term preservation and continued use of Warner Music Group’s historic broadcast collections.

Our services work in all industry sectors: NHS & Healthcare | Pharmaceutical | Local Government | Libraries & Museums | Educational Sectors | Engineering & Nuclear | Heritage Trusts | Audio-Visual Production Houses | Automotive | Charities | Housing Associations | Private Archives | Consumer Clients

For over 15 years, our multi-award winning specialist team of archive technicians and audio-visual engineers have been working for production houses, museums, local government, libraries, corporate and private clients offering audio-visual, photographic film and document digitisation and imaging services in line with IASA guidelines and The National Archives Standards for analogue media including rare, fragile and specialist collections.

We are proud to be one of the leading archiving, digitisation and imaging companies in the UK and Europe offering cutting edge quality audio-visual conversions using World leading AWS Elemental archival analogue conversion units, alongside leading Blackmagic decks, Prism Sound and Izotope audio restoration. Alongside our highly impressive archive department offering WideTek A0 scanners, Bookeye machines, Contex, Silverfast AI Archive Suite and Adobe Creative Suite software to provide all supported digital imaging output formats. Our state of the art in-house facilities in Kidlington, just outside the beautiful City of Oxford and within easy reach of all transport links. With a large car park and lovely gardens, you are welcome to drop orders in during our office hours.

To ensure your confidence, we adhere to the preservation of digital records using The National Archives Standards and The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives TC-06 guidelines . We actively support The National Archives in tackling the challenges of digital preservation, ensuring continued access to digital information in the future.

Digitising documents, books and maps

Digitising Documents

Working with clients across the UK, we digitise corporate, consumer and heritage document, book and map archives into suitable digital files for online use.

Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high-resolution planetary scanning for fragile books, rare maps, parchment and materials up to DIN A1+.

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Photographic film digitisation services

Digitising Photo Film

Our archive department is equipped with leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent, high-quality digitisation across film formats from 110mm through to glass plate negatives.

Adhering to The National Archives specifications, our services provide leading-quality digitisation with complete confidence.

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Audio and video tape digitisation services

Digitising Audio & Video

Working with leading AWS and Blackmagic conversion processors, our services incorporate audio, video, vinyl and reel formats in both open-spool and closed-tape formats.

Digital files can be supplied in formats including ProRes HQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG-4, AIFF, WAV and MP3, with most other options available upon request.

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Cherwell Business Awards Winner 2024

Cherwell Business Awards

We were thrilled to be recognised as a winner at the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024. The standard of entries was exceptionally high, making this recognition particularly meaningful to our team.

We were also winners of the Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 and finalists in the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023.

About our company

Our offices are open Monday to Thursday 8am-4pm Friday 8am - 3pm.
29 Banbury Road, Kidlington OX5 1AQ. Parking is available at the front of the building or rear car park.

Contact Us 01865 457000 or email cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com