Large format scanning services


If you're looking for a professional and affordable wide format scanning service to get your A0, A1, A2, A3 and other plan drawings or maps into digital format, you've come to the right place.

The kinds of organisations who use our large format scanning services

Our affordability and professional quality results is what made us the preferred wide format scanning service providers for organisations such as  Airservices Australia, BP refinery, Griffith University, Main Roads Queensland, BHP-Billiton, numerous city councils and the Department of natural resources and mines.


Why use us

  • We use the latest technology. Our large format scanner is designed to render the highest and cleares image quality available.
  • Great throughput provides fast turnaround on urgent jobs.
  • Superior cosmetic enhancement of scanned images which only comes from years of experience in software emhancement manipulation.
  • Accurate tagging and renaming of images according to your custom criteria.
  • Customisation of image format and data for all document management systems (including SAP and Documentum)
  • Each image is double checked to comply to our delivery standards providing you with absolute peace of mind.
  • Can provide your job in a self contained searchable CD/DVD PDF publication or as per your requiremnts.
  • A fast 1-Hour E-mail on demand service for getting drawings to you urgently

Scanning media

  • A0 scanning (plans, maps, fine art)
  • A1 scanning (plans, maps, fine art)
  • A2 scanning (plans, maps, fine art
  • A3 scanning (plans, maps, bound manuals, fine art, books)

Scanning rates

The following scanning rates include scanning, cosmetic enhancement including image straightening, correcting the viewing orientation to landscape or portrait, centering of the image as well as cropping the edges to leave a consistent border as per your requirements.
These flat rates include the CD/DVD  (shipping and courier fees excluded)
Size Colour and resolution Condition Flat rate
Qty 1-10		 Flat rate
 Qty 11-50		 Flat rate
Qty 51-100		 Flat rate
Qty 100+
A4 to A3 300 dpi Mono loose - edges crisp $  1.50 $  1.00 $  0.50 $  0.20c
A2 to A1 300 dpi Mono loose - edges crisp $  3.00 $  2.00 $  1.50 $  1.00
A0 + 300 dpi Mono loose - edges crisp $ 5.00 $  4.00 $  3.00 $  2.00
A4 to A3 300 dpi 24 bit colour loose - edges crisp $  3.00 $ 2.00 $  1.00 $  0.50
A2 to A1 300 dpi 24 bit colour loose - edges crisp $ 10.00 $ 5.00 $ 2.50 $ 2.00
A0 + 300 dpi 24 bit colour loose - edges crisp $ 15.00 $ 10.00 $ 7.00 $ 4.00

* these flat rates are calculated for scanning media with straight sharp edges, and which do not contain Staples or other binding clips.

Any preparation work such as the removal of staples or the straightening of edges will be charged out at $30 per hou r.

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Hilton Holder

Interesting image facts

File format for line drawings

Tiff CCITT group 4 is the "de facto" standard for the compression and digital storage of line drawing or text based images.

Its also called Tiff Fax G4 or Tiff G4 2 D.

Digital Storage for 1 x Filing cabinet
1 file cabinet (4 drawer) (10,000 pages on average) = 500 MegaBytes (MByte)= 1 CD ROM

Trees required for paper 1 pulp tree (loblolly pine) = 1/10th cord of wood = 10,000 pages = 1 File Cabinet = 4 boxes = 1/2 GByte
1 lumber tree (20 inch diameter, 110 ft tall, 50 years old) = 1 cord
10 pulp tree (8 in.  dia., 50 ft tall, 20 yrs old) = 1 cord = 4 x 4 x 8 ft = 128 cubic ft (75 cubic feet of wood)
Storage for an archive box
1 box (in inches: 12 wide x 15 long x 9.5 d) (2,500 pages) = 1 file drawer = 2 linear feet of files = 125 MBytes
Storage on 16mm Microfilm
1 roll of 16 mm microfilm (100 ft) = 2,500 letter size images = 1 box = 125 MBytes
Storage on 35mm Microfilm 1 roll of 35 mm microfilm (100 ft) = 5,000 letter size images (or letter size image equivalents)
Storage on Micro Fiche
1 microfiche (average) = 100 letter size images;
Digital storage units
1 Byte (B)(common usage) = 8 bits (b) = 1 character;

1 Unicode Byte = 16 bits = 1 character

1,000 Bytes =~ (~ about) 1 KiloByte;

1,000 KBytes =~ 1 MegaByte;

1,000 MBytes =~ 1 GigaByte;

1,000 GBytes =~ 1 TeraByte;

1,000 TBytes =~ 1 PetaByte;

1,000 PBytes =~ 1 ExaByte

The cost of a filing cabinet Figure fifteen square feet for
a file cabinet (you need enough room to open the drawers and walk past it). At $15 per square foot of space per year, that’s $2250 for the space, far more than the cabinet itself costs.
Storage cost of a CD
Cost of a unit of media - CD $1.00 / number of images that will fit on it / 16,000 images (50 KB per image)
= cost per image for media = $0.0000625 per image