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title: Leaving no angle unturned with Object Viewer (Preview)
description: Lucy Bonner, Archivist at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, has kindly agreed to talk to us about PastView’s 360 Object Viewer. Learn how IMechE have opened up accessibility, and engaged users with their virtual archive.
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- From Betamax, compact audio cassette and CD to VHS
- [3-Dimensional Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/3-dimensional-collections/)
- Including 3D and 2D object photography and VR tours
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- [Audio Visual Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/audio-transcription/)
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- [Handwritten Text Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/handwritten-text-recognition-htr/)
- Make handwritten text searchable through automatic text recognition
- [Optical Character Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/ocr-scanning-service/)
- Make typed text searchable with accurate data capture
- [Data Entry](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/data-entry/)
- Make ambiguous records fully searchable with data entry
- [Handwritten Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/metadata-transcription-service/)
- Make handwritten text searchable through transcription
- [Publishing](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/publishing/)
- [Digital Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/archive-management-software/pastview/welcome-to-pastview)
- Manage, publish and share digital collections online
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- Reimagine the digital management of cemetery records
- [Virtual Tours](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/virtual-reality-tour/)
- Bring internal spaces to life digitally with a VR Tour
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- Combat damage and loss with robust digital duplicates
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- Respectfully and globally mark significant figures and conflicts
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- Supporting collections to thrive in the digital landscape
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# Leaving no angle unturned with Object Viewer (Preview)
| **Published By:** [Jess Sturman-Coombs](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/author/jess-sturman-coombs) **Published:** August 2, 2021 **Last Updated:** May 9, 2023 |
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We are always looking at ways to make [PastView](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/) even better, to provide the solutions the industry is looking for. We do this through continued analysis, feedback, developments and feature releases. These feature releases fall into three distinct areas: the [management](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/management-features/) of your digital collections, the [publishing](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/publishing-features/) of items for increased access and discoverability, and the [revenue generation](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/revenue-generation-features/) that can be achieved from your most valued material, to help financially support the upkeep of your organisation’s archive.
It is feedback that drives a great proportion of this process, offering us the insight necessary to determine success and guide our creative vision. Therefore, it is greatly appreciated when someone within an organisation, being the first to incorporate one of these new features, is happy to share their experience by way of review.
Lucy Bonner, Archivist at the [Institution of Mechanical Engineers](https://www.imeche.org/library-archive), is one of these people, and she has kindly agreed to talk to us about PastView’s [Object Viewer](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/features/object-viewer/). You will find a really great overview as Lucy takes us through how this publishing feature applies to IMechE’s material, how it has opened up accessibility, and how it engages users visiting the [IMechE Virtual Archive](https://archives.imeche.org/).
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