Not too long ago, microfiche was the preferred way to store visual records such as newspapers, magazines and documents. In its time microfiche provided long-term storage, allowing businesses, libraries and government agencies to store hundreds of thousands of documents in a small amount of space. These days, however, the large microfiche readers that were once used to recover that information are largely gone, and many businesses and individuals are looking for ways to transfer their microfiche documents to their computers.
