Testimonials

I am the Director of Cartography and Geospatial Technologies for Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), one of the nation’s largest dedicated cultural resource management consultants with offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Washington. Since 2022, I have had the pleasure to work closely with Graphic Imaging Services, Inc. (GISI) on two large, complex scanning, digitization and data-quality projects focused on archival cultural resource management documents maintained by the Arizona and Nevada offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Our work entails scanning documents from these archives, then ensuring that the spatial data (archaeological site and project boundaries) and attribute data they contain is fully captured within a geographic information systems (GIS) database. In the case of the Arizona BLM project, the larger of the two, this work entails scanning all primary cultural resource management documents within the archives held by the BLM’s Lake Havasu and Safford Field Offices, which together manage BLM lands across nearly a quarter of Arizona. The thousands of individual documents held in these archives date back more than 50 years and include a wide range of media, from bound reports to large-format maps and transparencies to field notebooks and hand-drawn sketch maps written in pen or pencil. Scanning these archives required a GISI team to be onsite at each field office for months at a time. From the onset of of the work, GISI collaborated closely with both SRI and the BLM to ensure they had a complete understanding of which documents fell within the project scope and what equipment and methodology would be required to ensure each document was properly scanned and cataloged. This close coordination continued for the duration of the scanning process, whenever situations arose that required input from SRI or the client. As a result of their technical expertise, attention to detail, and general excellence, GISI finished work at both field offices ahead of schedule and under budget. My crews of geospatial analysts have now worked closely with the documents scanned by GISI for many months and have found them to be a high-quality, high-resolution archive that has completely met our needs. I am therefore happy to wholeheartedly recommend GISI’s services and look forward to working with them again in the future.

I want to express out deep appreciation for your loan of the oversize scanner that our partners at Fujitsu brought us. Having access to this superb equipment cut down out processing time and provided the high quality resolution we needed to contribute images to the repository.

Lisa and her employees digitized our old micro fiche with records from the early 1900s through the 1980s. They were aware that the records they were digitizing were protected by FERPA and kept them safe and secure. Their customer service went above and beyond, Lisa often picked up and delivered our files in St. George, Utah. The product we received was better than what we sent and we are pleased with the final project. I would recommend Graphic Imaging Services for any type of digitizing jobs.