Picturae is probably the most innovative company in the world of digitization unique cultural heritage objects and delicate natural history specimen.
Trough the years we have developed several methods, software and workflows to ensure the best possible product for our clients.
Due to the relative uniform herbarium sheet collections we have been able to develop our state-of-the-art conveyor belt solution.
Our herbarium conveyer belt operates completely mechanically, controlled by our own software. Therefore the image capturing process has become completely automated. Staff can solely focus on carefully handling the specimen, barcoding and repacking the sheets after processing. Each image will be validated according the required quality standard and errors are automatically detected before it reaches the conveyor belt’s end. With imaging speeds up to 6000 specimens a day, an average of only three staff members are needed. This makes the Picturae herbarium conveyor belt the ideal solution for biodiversity and botanical (research) institutes.
Our solution focuses on meeting and applying the seven project objectives: quickest processes, optimal safety in handling original specimens, highest quality standard for reproductions, atomization of our processes, validation of the output, minimizing error correction processes and best aid with big data.