ScanDigital
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2007
- HeadquartersTorrance, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2C
- OfferingServices
ScanDigital firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- ScanDigital
- Legal name
- ScanDigital, Inc.
- Website
- https://scandigital.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2007
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
ScanDigital industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Media Digitization Services
- NAICS
- Photofinishing (81292)
- SIC
- Services-Photofinishing Laboratories (7384), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Document Scanning & Imaging (Paper-to-Digital Conversion) (BPAAAKAA)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Film Scanning & Digitization (Telecine, Frame-by-Frame, Metadata Capture) (MPADAMAE)
Keywords
Where ScanDigital is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Torrance
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices2 records
Markets served
ScanDigital business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2C
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Photo and Media Digitization Services: One-time transaction-based fees for digitizing various media formats including photos, negatives, slides, video tapes, audio tapes, and film reels. Customers pay per item or per foot of film based on chosen resolution tier.
- Gift Cards: Electronic gift cards sold in denominations of $10, $25, $50, $125, and $250 that can be applied toward any digitizing service.
- USB Drives and Hard Drives: Sale of USB flash drives and external hard drives for customers who prefer physical media delivery over digital downloads.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Premium - 12MP for 35mm Slides & Negatives, 600 DPI for Printed Photos |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Expert - 24MP for 35mm slides & negatives, 1200 DPI for Printed Photos |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Special Media Photography Formats |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Audio Tape Digitization - Premium |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Video Tape Digitization |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Audio Reel Digitization |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Film Reel Digitization |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Round-trip Shipping |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Gift Cards |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels4 records
ScanDigital product offering
Product offeringCore offering
ScanDigital is a direct-to-consumer service that digitizes physical media into digital formats. Customers mail in photos, slides, negatives, video tapes, audio tapes, and film/audio reels to the company's Fishers, IN scanning facility, where they are converted to digital files using professional-grade equipment with manual and automated image correction. Digitized files are returned via free digital download, with optional USB or external hard drive delivery and return of original materials.
Product overview
ScanDigital is a consumer-facing photo and media digitization service company that operates as a single unified platform with modular service offerings. The core product portfolio consists of six main digitization service categories: (1) Standard Photos, Negatives & Slides for 35mm formats in two resolution tiers; (2) Special Media Photography Formats for non-standard sizes including scrapbooks and large format negatives; (3) Video Tapes to Digital covering VHS, MiniDV, and BetaMax; (4) Audio Tapes to Digital for cassettes and microcassettes; (5) Film Reels to Digital for 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm movie film; and (6) Audio Reels to Digital for 35mm audio reels. These core services are supplemented by included processing features (color correction, red-eye/dust removal) and optional add-ons (gift cards, USB drive delivery, roundtrip shipping). The company has reportedly digitized over 50 million memories and operates from facilities in Fishers, IN (headquarters) and Chicago, IL.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Standard Photos, Negatives & Slides Digitization Digitization service for 35mm slides, negatives, and printed photos up to 8x10 inches. Available in two resolution tiers: Premium (600 DPI for prints, 12MP for slides/negatives) and Expert (1200 DPI for prints, 24MP for slides/negatives). Includes hand-scanning, cropping, rotating, color correction, and red-eye removal.
- Special Media Photography Formats Digitization Digitization service for non-standard photographic formats including scrapbook pages, large prints over 8x10 inches, and special negatives/slides (110, 120 medium format, 126mm, 127mm, 2.25x2.25 inch, 4x5 inch, and 8x10 inch transparencies). Priced at $1.29 per scan.
- Video Tapes to Digital Conversion service for obsolete video formats including VHS, MiniDV, and BetaMax. Transforms legacy camcorder recordings into digital files using professional-grade decks with automatic tracking. Free cassette repair included. Pricing varies by format with Premium transfer at $23.95 and Expert transfer at $33.95.
- Audio Tapes to Digital Conversion service for cassette tapes and microcassettes into digital audio files. Enables digitization of home answering machine recordings, voice memos, and vintage audio collections. Priced at $28.00 per tape.
- Film Reels to Digital Conversion service for movie film reels including 8mm, Super 8, Super 8mm with sound, 16mm, and 35mm formats. Handles reels from 3 to 7 inches in diameter. Includes color correction and dust/scratch reduction. Can capture sound from sound-capable reels. Priced at $0.38 per foot for Premium and $0.48 per foot for Expert.
- Audio Reels to Digital Conversion service for audio reels (35mm format up to 14 inches diameter) into digital audio files. Includes professional digital remastering with noise removal, normalizing, and equalization. Both sides (Side A and Side B) of dual-sided reels are digitized. Priced at $0.38 per foot at Premium and $0.48 per foot at Expert resolution.
- Gift Cards Electronic gift cards available in preset amounts ($10, $25, $50, $125, $250) that can be applied toward any digitization service including shipping charges. Delivered via email with no expiration date.
Quantifiable outcome
- Over 50 million memories digitized
Companies that use ScanDigital
Customer profileSegments2 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
ScanDigital technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature4 records
ScanDigital partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights3 records
ScanDigital competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- DigMyPics: Photo, slide, and negative scanning service operating as a mail-in professional scanning company with a long operating history. Offers similar resolution-tiered pricing and competes in the same direct-to-consumer digitization niche.
- YesVideo: VHS-to-digital and film-reel-to-digital service that converts home movies and tapes. Markets heavily through Costco retail partnerships and direct mail-in, overlapping ScanDigital's core use case and customer base.
- iMemories: Cloud-based photo and video digitization service with similar mail-in flow and DigiBox product. Competes directly for consumer digitization of family media including tapes, film, and photos.
- Southtree (Digitize): Specializes in converting VHS, film reels, audio cassettes, and photos to digital. Uses a mail-in model comparable to ScanDigital with overlapping format coverage and resolution tier structures.
- FotoBridge: Professional photo scanning service handling photos, slides, and negatives via mail-in model. Provides similar format support and per-item pricing structure to ScanDigital, targeting the same memory-preservation consumer segment.
- Legacybox: Direct-to-consumer mail-in digitization service for home movies, photos, and tapes. Offers similar mail-in kits, resolution tiers, and format support as ScanDigital, competing for the same analog-to-digital conversion use cases.
- ScanMyPhotos: Direct competitor offering consumer mail-in photo, slide, and negative digitization. Operates an almost identical e-commerce mail-in model with comparable pricing tiers and turnaround workflows, making it the closest head-to-head competitor to ScanDigital.
Broad incumbents
- Walmart Photo: Major retailer offering photo printing and select digitization services. While not a specialty digitization player, captures a portion of the same consumer memory-preservation demand via existing retail footprint.
- CVS Photo: Retail photo printing and basic digitization service operated by CVS. Competes in adjacent retail photo services space but lacks the specialty format breadth and pro-grade scanning of ScanDigital.
- Costco Photo Center: Large retail photo services division that has expanded into digitization (including tape transfers). Operates at much higher scale as part of Costco's broader photo offering and competes on convenience rather than specialty format support.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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ScanDigital leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
ScanDigital funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds1 record
Investors
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ScanDigital M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about ScanDigital
What does ScanDigital do?
ScanDigital is a direct-to-consumer service that digitizes physical media into digital formats. Customers mail in photos, slides, negatives, video tapes, audio tapes, and film/audio reels to the company's Fishers, IN scanning facility, where they are converted to digital files using professional-grade equipment with manual and automated image correction. Digitized files are returned via free digital download, with optional USB or external hard drive delivery and return of original materials.
Is ScanDigital a public or private company?
ScanDigital is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was ScanDigital founded?
ScanDigital was founded in 2007. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is ScanDigital based?
ScanDigital is headquartered in Torrance, United States, in the North America region.
How does ScanDigital make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Photo and Media Digitization Services are the primary driver. The others are gift Cards and USB Drives and Hard Drives.
Who are ScanDigital's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are DigMyPics, YesVideo, iMemories, Southtree (Digitize), FotoBridge, Legacybox and ScanMyPhotos. Broad incumbents are Walmart Photo, CVS Photo and Costco Photo Center.
Does ScanDigital have an API?
No public API is recorded for ScanDigital.
What industry is ScanDigital in?
ScanDigital's product category is Media Digitization Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAAAKAA, Document Scanning & Imaging (Paper-to-Digital Conversion), with a secondary code of MPADAMAE, Film Scanning & Digitization (Telecine, Frame-by-Frame, Metadata Capture). Its NAICS code is 81292 and its SIC code is 7384.