Oxford Duplication Centre

Family and institutional archives do not always arrive in formats that are easy to play or access today. Oxford Duplication Centre works from Kidlington, Oxfordshire, converting documents, books, photographs, film, tapes, discs, and legacy digital media into accessible files. Its projects range from a single home video tape to larger corporate and heritage collections.

Document services cover business and government records, published books, maps, manuscripts, plans, diaries, and fragile materials such as parchment, linen, and cotton. The center offers non-destructive scanning for delicate books; its planetary scanner can handle large-format material up to A1+, according to the company. Handling and method matter when an original is historically significant or cannot be placed on a conventional scanner.

For photography, the company digitizes negatives, slides, films in different formats, glass plates, and specialist collections. It also lists microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, and nitrate, acetate, and polyester film. With these materials, the aim is not just to create an image but to preserve content and make it available in current formats.

Audiovisual services include consumer and professional tapes, vinyl records, archive audio, broadcast video, and motion-picture film in 8 mm, Super 8, 16 mm, and 35 mm. For audio and video projects, the center offers preservation and access files; its listed output formats include ProRes HQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG-4, WAV, AIFF, and MP3.

Digital-media services cover optical discs, floppy disks, Zip and Jaz disks, USB drives, and SD cards, as well as data recovery and help identifying unfamiliar media. That mix lets an organization or family ask about a format before deciding how to handle it. The center invites customers to describe the item or send a picture so the team can identify it and prepare a quote.

The service is aimed at families, businesses, public bodies, libraries, museums, archives, and cultural organizations. The company describes work with valuable or fragile collections and secure in-house storage for archive projects. Its website records recognition from the Cherwell Business Awards, with wins in 2023 and 2025 and a finalist position in 2024; those are service milestones, not certifications for each digitized item.

The Kidlington facility has parking at the front of the building and in a rear car park, a practical detail for customers delivering materials in person. From this location, the center serves projects in Oxfordshire and across the UK. Its broad format range and willingness to start with a single item make it relevant both to recovering family memories and organizing a professional archive.