About Us

Innovation has always been at the core of Innovative Document Imaging (IDI). Founded in 2001 by Marty Tannenbaum, who has served as President for more than 25 years, IDI has built its reputation by bringing groundbreaking technologies and forward-thinking solutions to its clients. Under his leadership, IDI became one of the first companies to introduce advanced digital imaging technologies to the publishing and pharmaceutical industries.

When Kirtas released its revolutionary robotic book scanner, IDI joined Google and Microsoft among the first organizations to acquire the technology. The scanner enabled books to be digitized at unprecedented speed and scale, helping position IDI as a leader in large-scale digitization projects. By 2013, the company operated ten robotic scanning systems, and its facilities and staff were featured in Google and the World Brain, the documentary-drama directed by Ben Lewis that examines Google’s ambitious effort to create a digital library of millions of books.

Today, IDI is much more than a conversion service provider. The company delivers a comprehensive range of document imaging, information management, and digital preservation solutions. As a reseller and implementation partner for industry-leading technologies from Canon, Konica Minolta, Kirtas, Image Graphics, Kodak, and Kofax, IDI helps organizations improve the way they capture, manage, and access critical information.

IDI also develops its own enterprise content management solutions, including E-File and its award-winning Digi-Find-It platform, which provide secure document management, search, retrieval, and information-sharing capabilities. Through these offerings, IDI delivers complete solutions for document imaging, data management, and both short- and long-term digital storage.

With specialized expertise serving libraries, universities, publishers, pharmaceutical companies, and other information-intensive organizations, IDI remains committed to helping clients preserve, organize, and unlock the value of their collections and records. Through partnerships with innovators such as Image Graphics, the company also provides archival-quality microfilm produced from digital images using advanced electron-beam technology, ensuring long-term preservation of valuable information assets.

IDI operates from headquarters in East Brunswick, New Jersey, with an additional production facility in Shelton, Connecticut. Its team includes experienced project managers, imaging specialists, and factory-authorized service technicians who ensure every project is properly planned, rigorously quality-controlled, and delivered on schedule.

With a staff of more than 70 highly trained professionals, IDI possesses expertise across a broad range of imaging technologies, document and book-handling methodologies, project management disciplines, and data conversion workflows. The company’s production environment includes more than 65 specialized scanners and microfilm systems, featuring technologies from Canon, Kodak, Book2Net, CopiBook, Kirtas, NextScan, Mekel, and E-Beam. This extensive equipment portfolio enables IDI to digitize virtually any format, from loose documents and oversized materials to bound volumes up to four inches thick, producing everything from high-resolution bitonal images to full-color archival masters.

IDI’s capabilities extend far beyond image capture. The company can deliver digital files in a wide range of formats, resolutions, and bit depths; create searchable text and metadata; provide quality-controlled indexing services; and implement content management solutions that help organizations organize, preserve, and access their information more effectively.

In 2016, IDI acquired the assets of E-Beam Imaging and expanded its leadership in preservation technologies. Today, under the direction of John Grosso, IDI/E-Beam produces archival-quality microfilm editions of leading publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times (London), which are distributed monthly to libraries worldwide.

IDI is also a trusted partner to several of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. Over the years, the company has digitized more than 100 million pages of laboratory notebooks, clinical trial records, medical files, human resources documentation, engineering drawings, microfilm, and microfiche, helping organizations improve compliance, accessibility, and long-term preservation of critical records.

Beyond digitization services, IDI has deployed more than 150 DigiFind-It® portals, its proprietary platform for presenting, searching, and interacting with digital collections that include documents, photographs, audio, and video. Building on that success, the company continues to expand its artificial intelligence and information management capabilities through DigiStore®, an advanced platform designed to store, manage, process, search, and present structured and unstructured content. DigiStore includes powerful tools such as facial recognition, intelligent search, and advanced data-management capabilities that help organizations unlock greater value from their information assets.

IDI’s ability to combine technology, expertise, and large-scale production capacity has enabled it to successfully complete some of the industry’s most demanding projects. In 2025 alone, the company digitized more than 60,000 books within six weeks for a major AI initiative, converted 3.5 million pages of global census records from microfilm, and continues to manage the digitization and preservation of more than 25 million microfilm dissertation images.