MicroFiche

Name

MicroFiche

Legal name

株式会社マイクロフィッシュ

Website

https://microfiche.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1971

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sapporo-shi

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Document Digitization Services: Professional services for converting paper documents, microfilm, and drawings into digital formats. Includes scanning, OCR processing, data entry, and database construction. Primarily project-based or contracted services for enterprise clients.
2. VR/XR Content Production: Custom VR content creation including virtual showrooms, model rooms, promotional content, and metaverse spaces. VR model rooms released since 2016. Metaverse platform (MetaPlace) development and deployment.
3. Microfilm Services: Microfilm creation, scanning, replication, and preservation services. Includes document archiving to microfilm for long-term storage and disaster recovery purposes.
4. Medical Information Solutions: Medical record digitization and management including in-hospital scan center operations. Services include digitization of paper records, attribute registration, and medical image search system construction.
5. Product Sales: Sales of filing supplies and related products. Includes Hokkaido Newspaper DVD 'Read Hokkaido Newspaper on PC'.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

MicroFiche provides professional document management and digital conversion services, including microfilm filing and production, digital filing, scanning, and data conversion for enterprises. It also offers specialized solutions such as OCR processing, newspaper digitization, on-site confidential document handling, medical information support, and custom VR/XR content production through its MetaPlace metaverse platform.

Product overview

MicroFiche is a document management and data conversion service provider offering an integrated portfolio of physical and digital archiving solutions. The core offerings include microfilm production and filing (with 500+ year archival stability), digital scanning and document conversion, OCR text recognition, and specialized solutions for newspaper digitization, medical records, and VR content creation. The company operates a VR/XR division offering the MetaPlace metaverse collaboration platform alongside traditional VR production services. Additional services include on-site digitization at customer premises, custom software development, survey aggregation, and filing product sales. The product architecture is organized as a set of interconnected core services (microfilm, digital filing, data conversion) supplemented by specialized vertical solutions (medical, newspaper, VR) and supporting tools (software development, research services).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MetaPlace (メタプレイス): Metaverse collaboration workspace platform that enables remote collaboration, cross-platform access via HMD, PC, tablet, and smartphone, with features including object placement, recording, measurement, and scale adjustment.

Products and services

• Microfilm Filing Professional microfilm-based filing and archival service for long-term preservation of records, used by government bodies, hospitals, and enterprises that require durable physical-format archives.
• Digital Filing Digital filing service that converts and organizes paper and legacy documents into searchable digital formats for enterprise and institutional clients.
• Data Conversion Service that converts legacy data formats into structured digital data, enabling clients to operationalize historical records and integrate them with modern systems.
• OCR Service Optical Character Recognition service that converts scanned documents into searchable text, used by publishers, government, and enterprises needing text-searchable archives.
• On-site Solutions On-site document digitization and archival service that sends MicroFiche personnel to the customer's location to securely process sensitive paper records that cannot leave the premises.
• Newspaper Digitization Solution Specialized digitization solution targeting newspaper publishers, enabling high-volume, high-precision scanning and OCR of historical newspaper archives for online search and retrieval.
• Medical Information Support Solution Solution tailored for hospitals and medical institutions to digitize, archive, and manage medical records and clinical documentation in compliance with healthcare information requirements.
• VR Production Custom VR/XR content production service that builds immersive experiences for clients, leveraging the company's digital content and visualization capabilities.
• MetaPlace MetaPlace is MicroFiche's proprietary metaverse platform that provides clients with a virtual environment, complementing the company's digitization and VR content production services.

Quantifiable outcome

• Communication process acceleration exceeding 50%
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• HLC Corporation (株式会社エイチ・エル・シー)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner providing latest technology and comprehensive services. Located at HLC Building in Tokyo.
• HLC Solutions (株式会社HLCソリューションズ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company specializing in comprehensive solutions and technology services.
• A-SHIP (株式会社A-SHIP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner in the ecosystem providing comprehensive services across specialized fields.
• MIS (株式会社MIS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner in the ecosystem providing comprehensive services.
• Brain Staff (株式会社ブレインスタッフ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner specializing in brain-related or professional services.
• Ivy System (アイビー・システム株式会社)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner in the ecosystem providing system-related services.
• Sogomu Jimuki (株式会社綜合事務機)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroup company partner specializing in office equipment and business machines.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• HIKKY: Tokyo-based VR company known for the Virtual Market (Vket) event on the Metaverse platform and custom enterprise metaverse solutions. Comparable to MicroFiche's MetaPlace as a Japanese metaverse platform targeting enterprise collaboration and events.
• Cluster, Inc. Japanese metaverse platform provider enabling large-scale virtual events and persistent 3D spaces. Comparable to MicroFiche's MetaPlace in the Japanese enterprise metaverse category, though focused on consumer/event use cases rather than industry-specific collaboration.

Broad incumbents

• Ricoh Japan: Japanese document services giant offering enterprise digitization, document management, and on-site scanning solutions. Comparable to MicroFiche's on-site digitization and document conversion offerings, with a much larger installed base and product range.
• Konica Minolta: Global document imaging company offering scanners, document management software, and enterprise digitization solutions. Competes with MicroFiche in the document digitization and OCR space as part of its broader Business Technologies portfolio.
• Fujifilm Business Innovation: Successor to Fuji Xerox, Fujifilm's document solutions division offers microfilm scanners, document management software, and enterprise digitization services. Overlaps MicroFiche in microfilm and document imaging, though as part of a much broader office and IT services portfolio.
• Canon (Document Solutions): Global imaging leader whose document solutions division provides scanners, capture software, and digitization services. Overlaps with MicroFiche in high-volume document scanning and OCR processing, though as part of a much broader hardware and imaging portfolio.

Direct peers

• TOPPAN Holdings: Japan's largest diversified printing and information services group with substantial microfilm, document digitization, archive, and content services operations. Directly comparable to MicroFiche across the core document management value chain, though at vastly greater scale.
• Dai Nippon Printing (DNP): Major Japanese printing and information services conglomerate with extensive document digitization, archive, and information processing offerings. Operates in the same enterprise document services market as MicroFiche with broader product breadth.
• PFU (Fujitsu Group): Japan-based developer of ScanSnap document scanners and enterprise capture/OCR software. Directly competes with MicroFiche in document capture and OCR — though more on the software/hardware product side than services delivery.

Others

• Nikon (Microfilm Solutions): Historical manufacturer of microfilm cameras, scanners, and readers serving archive and digitization customers. Comparable as upstream equipment counterpart to MicroFiche's microfilm services business, though Nikon operates on the product/hardware side rather than as a service provider.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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