ENTERPRISE-SCALE RECORDS DIGITIZATION
44 Million Records, Six Years, One Modern Archive
San Bernardino County, California
Across California’s largest county by land area, decades of official records, deeds, mining claims, and vital records sat on roll film and in bound books — a scale of paper and film that most digitization programs never approach.
44M+IMAGES PROCESSED |
99.99%VERIFIED ACCURACY |
2019–2025PROGRAM SPAN |
THE SITUATION
San Bernardino County needed to convert an enormous, uneven legacy archive — roll film, bound books, and mechanical books spanning Official Records, Deeds, Mining Records, Grantor/Grantee indexes, Vital Records, and historical newspapers — into a structured, searchable, AI-ready digital record. The source media carried heavy defect rates, including reversed polarity on nearly 45% of images and step/frame issues on over a third, layered on inconsistencies built up across more than a decade of accumulated film and paper. Engaged through a prime contractor, iBridge needed a program that could sustain quality and pace across a multi-year, multi-phase effort.
THE APPROACH
iBridge ran the engagement as eleven-plus sequenced phases from August 2019 through April 2025, each carried through the same border cleanup, image inspection, and image enhancement workflow, scaled to a capacity of 15 million-plus images per month. Defects were resolved at the source: step issues corrected through reconversion, polarity corrected from the legacy film, duplicate captures removed, mismapped images fixed, and film scratches corrected as line defects.
— Eleven-plus phases sustained the same quality bar across rollfilm, bound books, and mechanical books, from newspapers through vital records
— Defect correction targeted legacy film’s specific failure modes — polarity, step/frame alignment, and scratch damage — rather than a single generic pass
THE RESULT
iBridge delivered structured, searchable, AI-ready datasets across the full program at 99.99% accuracy, despite the defect rates and inconsistencies built into decades of accumulated rollfilm and bound-book records. The program held a scalable, repeatable model consistently from the first phase to the last.
WHY IT MATTERS
San Bernardino County demonstrates iBridge’s capacity to sustain enterprise-scale, multi-year digitization programs with flawless processing at scale and disciplined phased delivery.