Case Study: Combat Stress preserves its historical archives with Pearl Scan

Combat Stress digitises 2,500 historical photographs and 1 century of archives with Pearl Scan

Pearl Scan was commissioned by Combat Stress, the UK's leading veterans' mental health charity, to address the challenge of preserving and providing access to over a century of fragile historical archives. The physical collection, which included deteriorating documents, photographs, and minute books, was stored across multiple sites and was difficult for staff to access efficiently, risking damage to the irreplaceable materials.

Pearl Scan implemented a comprehensive heritage digitisation solution, which included secure collection, specialist scanning, and OCR processing. The project successfully digitized the entire archive, making it instantly accessible online, preserving the materials from further damage, and freeing up physical storage space. The vendor delivered a fully searchable digital archive, ensuring the charity's remarkable history is preserved and available to a global audience for research and discovery.

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