Price Matrix  


Overall, price is determined by three characteristics of the source material: typeface, legibility, and condition. Standard typeface, legibility, and condition imply clear, easily deciphered text in Western script with limited special characters and a fairly sturdy or good condition of the actual page itself (i.e. limited smudges, tears, or other damages that would present an obstacle to identifying text.) Complex typefaces, legibility, and condition refer to Non-Western typeface, special characters, smudged or unclear letters, handwritten text, and/or delicate or damaged source material.

 

Metric

Standard

Complex

Typeface

Simple typefaces that require little or no training to key. Examples include Roman fonts and its variants (minor flourishes), including basic and extended Latin character set, with minimal localized instances of non-Latin characters

Difficult typefaces  such as blackletter fonts, non-Latin character sets including Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc, and the presence of archaic characters such as the old English "long s ".

 

 

Handwritten text would also fall under this classification.

Legibility

Documents suitable for standard keying processes, i.e., with crisp and sharp text, minimal noise, bleed through, and/or illegible text.

Documents whose text is difficult to read as a result of broken characters, “noise ”, blemishes, or other defects scattered throughout the pages that intermittently obscure the text.

Condition

Documents with pages free of physical damage, including tears, repairs, and staining that obscure content.

Documents with physical damage that obscures text to be converted.

       

 

Seen below, Price Group is a factor of the combination between the standard and complex elements of a source material.

Table 2: Pricing Schema

Price Group

Typeface

Legibility

Condition

Price Group 1

Standard

Standard

Standard

Price Group 2

Standard

Standard

Complex

Standard

Complex

Standard

Price Group 3

Standard

Complex

Complex

Complex

Standard

Standard

Price Group 4

Complex

Standard

Complex

Complex

Complex

Standard

Complex

Complex

Complex

Price Group 5

          Custom Requests, or otherwise unusual projects.

Listed here are the prices per kilobyte for each Price Group, as well as general scanning and conversion costs.

Table 3: Pricing

Description

Unit

Unit Rate

Price Group 1

Kilobyte

$0.49

Price Group 2

Kilobyte

$0.65

Price Group 3

Kilobyte

$0.76

Price Group 4

Kilobyte

$0.89

Price Group 5

Kilobyte

Custom

Scanning

Page

$0.09

Film to Tiff Conversion

Page

$0.09

Upcharge for Medium Encoding

Kilobyte

$0.08