Send us your old CDs, DVDs, floppy disks and SD cards, and we'll extract your photos and files for you. You don't need any special equipment to get to your memories. Get them back on a flash drive, as a digital download, or both.
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From old floppy disks to SD cards, we extract the photos and files from these storage formats. Select a format to learn more about its history and how we digitize it.
The 3.5-inch floppy disk was released in the 1980s and held about 1.4MB. For comparison, a magnetic storage system from the 1950s held 5MB and weighed over 2,000 pounds.
Floppy disks are now obsolete, and most modern computers have no floppy drive to read them. Send them to us, and we'll extract your files for you. You don't need any special equipment.
Sony and Philips brought the compact disc to consumers in the 1980s, and it held about 800MB of audio and data. Over the years it came in many forms, including write-once and rewritable discs, Video CD, Super Video CD, Photo CD, Picture CD, CD-i and Enhanced Music CD.
Many CDs hold photos, documents and memories that are hard to reach now that computers have stopped including disc drives. We extract the files for you.
The DVD was developed in 1995 and released in Japan on November 1, 1996. A typical disc held about 4.7GB, and it became a common format for films and shows. Families also began recording their lives on DVD.
If your home videos and photos are on DVD, we can extract them for you so you can watch and share them again without a disc player.
SD cards were introduced in 1999 by SanDisk, Panasonic (then Matsushita) and Toshiba as an improvement over MultiMediaCards and Memory Sticks. The original cards held up to 2GB, and later generations offered much more. One card could hold up to 2,000 images.
Digital cameras ended the limits of film rolls, and a lot of photos still sit on old SD cards. We extract them for you, so you don't need a card reader or an old camera.
Floppy disks, CDs, DVDs and SD cards are getting harder to open every year, because the devices that read them are disappearing. Digitizing them sooner rather than later is the best way to keep your memories within reach. Here's what you get when you convert discs and cards to digital with us.
We extract the photos, videos, and files from your discs and cards and send them back on a flash drive, as a digital download from your account, or both.
You don't need a floppy drive, a disc drive or a card reader. Send us your old storage devices, and we'll put your memories back in your hands.
From the moment your box arrives, each item is weighed to the gram, and 60 high definition cameras monitor the property. Your original discs and cards always go back to you.
We've designed the whole process
to be as pain-free as possible.
Pack your CDs, DVDs, floppy disks and SD cards in a sturdy box and send them to us.
Our technicians read each disc and card and extract the photos and files from it.
Get your files on a flash drive, as a digital download from your account, or both.
Your old formats hold irreplaceable photos, videos, and files, so we protect them at every step, in transit and inside our lab. Here's how we keep them safe:
Barcoded and logged upon arrival
Weighed before & after processing
Fully digitized in our US facility — never outsourced
Monitored under 24/7 surveillance cameras
Originals always returned safelyWe stand behind our handling process with a guarantee: if any item is lost or damaged at our facility, we'll compensate you $1,000.
Choose the digitizing option that works best for your collection.
À la carte pricing
Flat-rate pricing
Have other photos, film reels, or videotapes you'd like to preserve? Explore our other digitizing services to find the right solution for your old media.
Digital storage let everyday people save their memories, but the devices that store them keep changing. Floppy disks, CDs and DVDs need drives that most computers no longer include, and older SD cards sit forgotten in drawers. The longer you wait, the harder it gets to access them. We extract your photos and files for you, so you don't need any special equipment to get your memories back.
We extract files from floppy disks, CDs, DVDs and SD cards.
We send your memories back on a flash drive, as a digital download from your account, or both.
Use a box, not an envelope. Choose a sturdy, double-walled box, like the kind used for shipping books, and avoid flimsy department store garment boxes and padded envelopes. Make sure your box is filled, even if you need to pad it, with bubble wrap, foam peanuts or crumpled newspaper so your discs and cards can't slide around.
We keep copies of your extracted files for a period of time after your order ships, so we can re-copy them if there's a problem in transit. If you'd like duplicate copies, request them when you place your order.
Friendly, first-class service. My most recent project involving the scanning of a few hundred photos, many over 75 years old, was fantastic. The finished qualit...
When I started this process I was skeptical. How can I just pack up all my precious pictures and send them off somewhere? As it turned out this was the best thi...
I sent about 130 pictures in to be put on a USB stick, and very pleased with the result. Digital images look great, and I shared with my family. Very happy with...
ScanCafe was a great place to have my photo negatives turned into digital images. The images came out great and the negatives came back to me in perfect conditi...
I just finished downloading the digital files from a dozen old 16MM family films that I submitted. All of them were shot in the mid to late 1950's and were sure...
Scancafe delivered high quality 35 mm slide scan as promised. Customer service was effecient. Important memories were rescued :)
Helpful staff, careful treatment of our slides, great care with keeping slides in order, and packaging them for posting. Highly recommend
I have trusted ScanCafe (nee GoPhoto) with many, many treasured photographs over the years. They are always returned exactly the way I sent them and I am absolu...
Great service and quality wrt digitizing some of my APS film.
