Digital Slide Scanning Service for Education

We'll convert your glass microscope slides into high-resolution, Internet-accessible digital slides for you

Tired of trying to teach using breakable, hard to manage and even harder to share glass microscope slides? Aperio’s slide scanning service minimizes the task of preparing and distributing teaching sets, collaborating, and testing and QA.

These images represent just a small sampling of the many slides we've scanned for customers. Visit our Digital Slide Gallery to see more.

Choose your desired resolution and we’ll create entire-slide digital slides from your glass slides that can be viewed, annotated, shared, managed, and analyzed with unprecedented ease. Unlike glass slides, digital slides are accessible anywhere, anytime—by one or one hundred people.

  • Liberate yourself from breakable, hard to manage and hard to share glass slides
  • Ensure all students and colleagues see the same superior-quality image
  • Share digital slides via Internet, or distribute on CD or DVD
  • Take advantage of powerful digital slide viewing and navigation capabilities with ImageScope, Aperio’s state-of-the-art viewing software (included)

Why wait when you can start taking advantage of digital pathology today. Aperio's Slide Scanning Service provides a simple, affordable, and fast way to convert glass slides into digital slides.* Coupled with our Digital Slide Hosting Service, it's a no-muss, no-fuss way to start.

Our team of technicians will scan your slides according to your requirements, and deliver them back to you, along with a DVD containing the digital slides. In addition, the digital slides will be accessible via Aperio's secure digital slide hosting service for a 30 day free trial period. > More on Digital Slide Hosting Service

Getting Started Is Easy

Step 1. Send us your glass slides. We will scan them using Aperio's award-winning ScanScope Scanner. Download the order form, or contact us at 866.478.4111 to set up an account.

Step 2. Your glass slides, along with the digital slides on a DVD, and our ImageScope™ viewing software will be sent to you. By request, our slide scanning service will include web-based access to your digital slides for a 30 day free trial period at slidehosting.com.

Step 3. View, bookmark and annotate your digital slides. After a quick installation of our software, you can will have complete functionality, affording you the advantage of powerful digital slide viewing, navigation, and analytic capabilities. If you choose to host your slides at slidehosting.com you will be able to create bookmarks and annotations for your digital slides directly. We will provide you with a password to create and protect your files.

Aperio slide scanning services are affordable and the image quality is guaranteed. If you are not satisfied with the image quality of a digital slide, we well re-scan it at no charge.

High Performance Viewing

Our freely downloadable ImageScope viewing software enables efficient access of your scanned digital slides from anywhere.

  • Instantly pan and zoom to any region and magnification, with thumbnail map of entire slide
  • Enhance images with real-time contrast, brightness, and gamma adjustments
  • Bookmark, annotate, and share digital slides via Internet, or distribute on CD or DVD
  • View multiple digital slides side-by-side

Aperio's Spectrum Plus is the perfect complement to the Slide Scanning Service. With Spectrum Plus, you can manage and host your digital slide library, and have the same powerful viewing, editing, annotating, sharing, workflow management, and analytical capabilities found in the ScanScope System.

Ready to employ remote access but not ready to set it up at your site? Our Digital Slide Hosting Service is the answer. Let us host your digital slides and you'll get all the benefits of digital pathology while we maintain the software, hardware, and other IT components for you.

See the difference digital slides can make — send your glass slides today!

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* Aperio products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research use for other applications.