Archive Scanning

There’s a room, a warehouse or a storage contract nobody has looked at closely in years.

Everyone agrees it needs dealing with, and it’s lost every budget cycle it’s ever been in, because nothing breaks today if it stays exactly where it is. We clear it once, at enterprise volume and in any condition.

70% Reduction in retrieval time, Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records
12M+ Images digitized in that same engagement

The situation

Something always breaks eventually.

An audit request, a legal hold, a lease renewal on the space the boxes occupy, or a digital initiative that can’t start until the archive is digital. Archive is a risk and closure story. What sells it is what stops being true once the room is empty.

Why Archive

Scale and security the local bureau can’t match.

Any condition, at enterprise volume

Whatever the paper looks like, whether it is a well-organized archive or a chaotic mix of bound volumes, large format and damaged originals, we capture it at scale.

30+ years of experience and four high-security processing facilities.

Full chain of custody and security

Every document is tracked from pickup or receipt through final digital delivery, with documented custody at every step.

On-site scanning available where records can’t leave the building; SOC 2 Type II across every processing facility.

What’s included

Any format, any condition, cleared once.

What you get

Who we work with

Where this has held up.

Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records
70%

Reduction in retrieval time

Retrieval time cut from 10 minutes to 3.

12M+ Images digitized

Common triggers

The deadline usually arrives on its own schedule.

A digital initiative

A backlog of physical records sits between your organization and a digital or AI initiative that can’t start until the archive is digital.

An audit or legal hold

An audit request or legal hold puts a hard date on records nobody has looked at closely in years.

A facilities move

A lease renewal, a floor consolidation or giving back square footage puts a deadline on an archive that has never had an owner.

What happens to your paper

Disposition is your choice, not something that happens to you.

Default

Destroy your originals

Securely destroyed after a hold period you agree, with your sign-off approving the certified destruction before it happens.

Option

Return your documents

Your originals come back to you, organized however the engagement calls for.

Option

Store your paper

We hold your originals for an agreed term while you decide.

Questions we hear

Before you reach out.

Where this connects

Once the backlog is clear, most clients don’t want a new one.

Archive converts to Day-Forward often, usually once a client works out that clearing a backlog isn’t the same thing as keeping it clear. And once your records are digital, extracting, matching and classifying what’s inside them is Refine work, a separate DataBank category.

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Start the conversation

What’s sitting in storage that nobody has looked at?

Tell us what’s in the room, and we’ll scope a plan to clear it.

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