Opus Consultants

Until 2009, Opus International Consultants accessed South Island bridge plans on microfilm using a special reader and printer. Their continued use of the microfilm, combined with its age, meant Opus had to take steps to preserve its valuable plans by converting them to digital format.

During 2009 and early 2010, Desktop Imaging used its specialist microform scanners to convert Opus’s plans to PDF files in batches of 500 at a time. The exercise was successfully completed over 15 months.

The resulting high-quality PDF files are now easily accessible on Opus International’s management system and are backed up and supported by Opus’s IT infrastructure.