Marty Tannenbaum brings more than 44 years of leadership and innovation in digitization, and information management. He served as President of the Association of Information Management from 1995 to 1996 and has been an active member of the Association of Records Managers for decades, contributing significantly to the advancement of the industry.

From 1981 to 1992, Marty worked at Universal Microfilm, where he specialized in the sale of microfilm conversion services, reader printers, and microfiche jacket systems. During this period, he also introduced and sold the first digital reader printers for Fuji microfilm in the United States, helping to pioneer the transition from analog to digital access.

In 1993, Marty joined PMI in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, where he advanced to Vice President of Sales. While at PMI, he was recognized as Canon’s top dealer sales manager in the United States for five consecutive years, achieving record-breaking sales of reader printers and imaging systems.

In 2001, Marty founded Innovative Document Imaging LLC (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 has digitized some of the world’s most significant and valuable collections. These projects include the History of Flight collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; the Gilder Lehrman Collection in New York City, featuring an original copy of the U.S. Constitution, the proposed 13th Amendment, the Emancipation Proclamation, and correspondence from George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin; rare and historic map collections at the Royal Geographical Society in London; and the largest collection of Arabic books held by the British Library.

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.

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.

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.