Company Mission
Our company mission is to supply the best service possible at reasonable cost for the digital conversion of film, tapes, photos, slides, audio, paper documents, newspapers, maps, books, bound materials, microfilm and microfiche. IDI balances price, quality, and speed in order to provide its clients with the digital assets at their specifications. We always meet their requirements and, where possible, exceed their expectations. In addition to data conversion, IDI prides itself on its ability to go the extra step and fulfill metadata, data archiving, or enterprise content management needs as they arise.
Innovation
Innovative Document Imaging’s name directly reflects its approach to serving its clients by focusing on “innovation.” In 2001, Marty Tannenbaum founded IDI, where he has served as President for over 25 years. Under his leadership, IDI became the first company in the world to introduce advanced digital imaging solutions to both the publishing industry and the pharmaceutical sector. When Kirtas launched its groundbreaking robotic book scanner, IDI was among the first organizations—alongside Google and Microsoft—to receive one of the initial five units produced. This technology enabled IDI to digitize books at unprecedented speed and scale. By 2013, IDI operated 10 robotic scanning units, and its facilities and staff were featured in Google and the World Brain, a 2013 documentary-drama directed by Ben Lewis that explores Google’s ambitious and controversial effort to digitize millions of books into a global library.
IDI is more than just a conversion facility. It is also a reseller of digital equipment and enterprise content management systems. IDI has partner relationships with Canon, Konica-Minolta, Kirtas, Image Graphics, Kodak and Kofax; it is also a developer of content management systems for use by libraries and private firms, including its E-File and award-winning portal Digi-Find-It for PDF presentations and retrievals. In all of these endeavors, IDI seeks to present a suite of solutions for document imaging, data management and short and long-term digital storage for its clients. Currently, IDI specializes in serving libraries, universities, publishers, and pharmaceutical companies.
Moreover, through partnerships with vendors such as Image Graphics, IDI also supplies the highest-quality microfilm-from-digital images utilizing electron-beam technology.
Qualifications, Experience & Capabilities
IDI’s operations are currently housed in East Brunswick, NJ (headquarters) and Shelton, CT. Its staff includes project managers, imaging specialists, and factory-authorized service technicians to ensure that all projects are set up properly, controlled for quality, and completed in a timely manner.
Our 70 staff members comprise highly trained professionals familiar with many types of scanning equipment, document and book handling procedures, and project management and data conversion software tools. IDI uses some of the most sophisticated imaging equipment in the world. Housing over 65 scanners and microfilm recorders including Canon and Kodak paper scanners, Book2Net, Copibook overhead scanners, Kirtas robotic book scanners, E-Beam microfilm recorders, and both NextScan and Mekel microfilm/microfiche scanners. Our various scanners can handle anything from loose sheets of varying size to bound books up to four inches thick, from simple bitonals to full-color images of differing resolutions. IDI can work from materials of any size, produce digital images in a wide range of resolutions and bit depths, output files in different formats, supply text and metadata files at varying accuracy rates, and even install data management systems to assist with organization and presentation of content.
In 2016, IDI acquired the assets of E-Beam Imaging and appointed John Grosso to manage this division. Today, IDI/E-Beam produces and delivers microfilm editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The London Times on a monthly basis to libraries around the world.
IDI is also a preferred vendor for five major pharmaceutical companies. For these clients, the company has digitized more than 100 million pages of laboratory notebooks, clinical trial documentation, human resources files, medical records, engineering drawings, microfilm, and microfiche.
Beyond digitization services, IDI has sold more than 150 DigiFind-It portals, its proprietary platform designed to elegantly display, search, and interact with PDFs, photographs, video, and audio content. IDI is now expanding further into artificial intelligence through its advanced DigiStore® platform, which supports the storage, management, processing, searching, and presentation of images, documents, audio, and video. The platform includes sophisticated tools such as facial recognition and robust capabilities for managing unstructured data.
In 2025, the company completed an extraordinary initiative, digitizing more than 60,000 books for an AI-driven project within a six-week timeframe. That same year, IDI digitized global census records totaling 3.5 million microfilm pages and is currently digitizing and managing more than 25 million frames of microfilm dissertations.
Historical Collection Projects
We have worked with several journal projects since our founding in 2001. We recognize in particular the unique character of local history. Unlike other book or serial projects, a collection of an institution’s history may be the sole extant complete copy. For this reason alone, IDI treats these collections in exactly the same way it has handled rare book and manuscript collections from prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress, American Antiquarian Society, Smithsonian Museums, The British Library, Yale, Harvard, Columbia and George Washington University. Many others entrusted their collections for digitization to our care.
These books, manuscripts, photos and periodicals are critical resources of information about towns or regions history and, in some instances, a tool to promote development activities among its residents. Quality digitization is critical to these documents. To that end, we pay particular attention to the handling of these materials, ensuring as much as possible that they are returned in the same condition in which they arrived.
