Aperture Card is a standard Hollerith encoded IBM-style punch card that acts as a transport for a 35mm transparency. Typically, aperture cards are used to store engineering drawings, many organisation in the engineering industry have years of their technical drawings archive held on aperture cards. The microfilm tehnology is around for few decades and offered a secured and organised storage to their drawings.

However, there are some drawbacks to perserving drawing on aperture cards, for example, the aperture card which contain the drawing can only be used by one person at one given time, it is not such a secure storage medium as if the aperture is lost or damaged, the actual drawing is lost forever. It is also a very time consuming process to view the drawing from the aperture card microfilm as the aperture card viewer needs to be set and fouced each time. Finally aperture card film readers are not very reliable and often break, which increases the maintainance cost.

In the past decade technology has rapidly improved the way organisations store, archive and access their drawings. It has become imperative for businesses to look into the current methods of archiving and accessing data not only to improve their current storage and access medium but also to save cost and better managment of their drawings and associated documents.

Electronic storage and access have been around for a decade now and organisations are being forced to implement the new technology by its huge benefits. There are many advantages for the conversion of the aperture cards into electronic files. Two of the main advantages of aperture card scanning and conversion to electronic format that are not avaliable with old traditional aperture cards archiving are.

• Instant Access To Aperture Cards Scanned Drawings
• The Scanned Aperture Cards Can Be Shared Across The Business Network Simultaneously.