Data Conversion Services:

Typical data conversion services fall into 4 general categories:
 

Data Conversion	Input	Output
Microfilm Conversion; also called microfilm scanning	Microfilm roll film; 16mm or 35mm	Digital format, typically TIFF format (tagged image file format) or PDF (portable document format)
Microfiche Conversion; also called microfiche scanning	Microfiche	Digital format, typically TIFF format (tagged image file format) or PDF (portable document format)
TIFF to PDF	Digital images in TIFF format	Digital images in PDF format
Text-searchable PDF	Digital images in PDF format	Digital images in PDF format which have gone through an OCR (Optical Character Recognizition) process which allows for full-text search of the entire document