Industries we Serve
Digitization
& Capture
Preservation-grade image capture and material handling for any collection, any material type, anywhere in the world.
The Foundation of Every Digital Collection
Digitization is where DT DigiLabs started — and it’s still the foundation everything else is built on. Our in-house capture team was built with one mission: the highest possible preservation-quality digitization of the world’s cultural heritage. That mission hasn’t changed. What’s changed is what happens next — once your collection is captured, it becomes the raw material for DT Identify, DT Cipher, and DT Registrar to turn into searchable, structured knowledge.
What We Capture
- Bound material — books, manuscripts, ledgers
- Film — motion picture, still, glass plate, and obsolete formats (transmissive workflow)
- Flat art — paintings, drawings, prints, photographs
- Oversized materials — maps, blueprints, broadsides
- Loose manuscript & documents
- Sculpture & decorative arts (3D)
- Science & research specimens
- Custom / non-standard material — see DT Advanced Projects
How We Work
- In our facility, or on-site when material can’t be moved from its permanent location
- Preservation-grade standards: FADGI 4-Star, ISO 19264 Level A, and Metamorfoze Strict
- Powered by DT Heritage hardware and software — the same camera platforms, copy stands, and Capture One CH / DT Nexus workflow tools institutions purchase directly
- Custom QC systems built around each collection’s specific requirements, not a one-size-fits-all checklist
Why Institutions Choose DT DigiLabs for Capture
Our team has decades of combined experience working inside some of the world’s most demanding collections, including institutions whose hardware standards DT Heritage itself helped set — the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Getty, and National Geographic among them.
- A track record with the hardest jobs: fragile, rare, oversized, and obsolete-format materials
- Full accountability from project planning through final delivery — one team, start to finish
- The same standards discipline DT Heritage’s hardware customers rely on, applied to work we do for you
What Happens After Capture
- DT Identify — find and tag every person across your collection
- DT Cipher — turn handwritten and historic text into searchable, translated text
- DT Registrar — classify and catalog what’s actually in each image
- DT Advanced Projects — for anything that doesn’t fit this standard process
