Case Study: Breckland Council secures 130,000 microfiche records with Pearl Scan

Breckland Council secures 130,000 microfiche records with Pearl Scan

Breckland Council, a local authority, faced a significant risk to its statutory archive of planning and building control records. The documents were stored on deteriorating microfiche and relied on ageing reader equipment that was becoming impossible to maintain. To preserve the records and ensure continuous access, the council partnered with Pearl Scan to undertake a large-scale digitisation project.

Pearl Scan implemented a full digitisation solution for both microfiche and paper files, which included metadata indexing, OCR, and a crucial scan-on-demand service to prevent business disruption. The project successfully digitised 130,000 microfiche and 35,000 paper files, creating a permanent, searchable digital archive. This eliminated the council's reliance on legacy equipment and made the records accessible 24/7 via Pearl Cloud, with zero operational disruption during the 13-month programme.

Breckland Council