Botanical Gardens

Botanical gardens hold decades and even centuries worth of botanical history. Without these collections, crucial sources for natural history research would vanish. Picturae has been a leader in preserving herbariums through large-scale digitization. We have experience working with delicate bound herbaria and the library holdings of botanical collections.

What We Digitize

While our herbarium conveyor belt digitization technology is our most recognized offering, Picturae provides various methods to convert physical herbariums into digital ones. For projects involving sheet-mounted specimens of varying sizes, our conveyors and tabletops are equipped to capture images of specimens along with associated collection materials like illustrations and photographs.

Herbarium

Picturae revolutionized the approach to herbarium digitization with the introduction of the conveyor belt. In our 10+ years of experience, Picturae has worked with over 60 different herbariums, imaged over 20,000,000 specimens, and contributed over 2,000 terabytes of data to the botanical community.

Bound

Picturae offers innovative solutions for bound materials ranging from contemporary books, newspapers, and magazines to 16th-century esoteric writings utilizing equipment designed to digitize bound material safely, quickly, and to the highest quality standards.

Unbound

From photos and letters, to notary deeds: Picturae digitizes all kinds of flat, loose-leaf materials. We are even equipped to handle large formats such as maps, posters, and construction blueprints.

Project Highlight

800,000 herbarium specimens

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.

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Contact us

Do you want to know more about the possibilities of digitization within your botanical garden? Contact us, and one of our digitization experts will be in touch with you.