Project Highlights
Discover the compelling stories of our esteemed clients, their digitization projects, and the impactful outcomes achieved through our collaborative efforts.
800,000 Herbarium Specimens Digitized for UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Singapore Botanic Gardens has embarked on its largest digitization effort ever, launching an ambitious project to digitize around 800,000 herbarium specimens. Marking both a 150-year legacy and a decade as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the initiative sets a new benchmark for global botanical preservation.
645,000 Specimens Digitized with our Entomology Conveyor
Over more than two years, Picturae partnered with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin to digitize part of its insect collection, transforming hundreds of thousands of physical specimens into high-quality digital data that can be searched, analyzed, and used for research worldwide.
By combining scalable digitization workflows with specialist handling, more than 645,000 insect specimens were digitized efficiently and with care.
Photo credit: Thomas Rosenthal
4.3 Million Plant Specimens Digitized
We are proud to share a major milestone of our digitization journey with Italy’s National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), in collaboration with the University of Padua and the University of Florence. What began as an ambitious vision years ago has now become a reality: more than 4,300,000 herbarium specimens from Italian botanical collections have been digitized using Picturae’s conveyor technology.
1.8 Million Scans Annually to Create Collective National Memory
Nationaal Archief preserves more than 125 kilometers of records documenting Dutch history.
Through a large-scale archival digitization program, 1.8 million images are captured each year – including photographs, drawings, and maps dating back to the 19th century. By combining engineered workflows with structured metadata enrichment, the project ensures that this national collection remains accessible, searchable, and sustainable for generations to come.
How Millions of Specimens Became Accessible for Research
Naturalis Biodiversity Center houses 37 million biological and geological objects, making it one of the world’s leading biodiversity research institutions.
To increase global accessibility, Picturae digitized the entire herbarium collection – 5 million specimens – using high-throughput, precision imaging systems and structured metadata workflows. The project transformed a vast physical collection into research-ready digital data, now accessible to scientists worldwide.
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