Tantramar Interactive has just finished scanning 31,563 pages — 17 bankers’ boxes full of documents that stack over 18 feet high — for Environment Canada’s regional headquarters.
The physical documents, dating back to the 1930s, typically reports generated by Canadian Wildlife Service scientists, are being replaced by the digital documents scanned and assembled by Tantramar Interactive staff.
The typesetting and paper quality was inconsistent. I required that the scans be keyword-searchable and well organized. I am very pleased with the results.
—Angela Ward Smith
A/Regional Librarian, Atlantic Region
Environment Canada
These electronic files are much easier to store and access than the originals, making decades’ worth of data and findings that much more useful for long-term studies of the climate, habitat and species of Atlantic Canada. Of course, they now all fit on a USB flash drive smaller than a loonie, which is nice, too.