Digital Yearbooks
Every moment, every year preserved forever
Bring every yearbook into a clean, searchable digital library that never fades. Preserve your full history and make it accessible in seconds.
What is a Yearbook?
People often ask what a yearbook is or why it matters. A yearbook is more than a time capsule, it is the essence of every year's history. It captures the achievements, faces, spirit, and events that shaped each school year and became part of our lives. A yearbook holds moments you cannot replace.
Why restrict that history to if you or your family bought the book or not?
Every student should be able to search through decades of history to find their parent, grand parent, or even great grandparent!
So, what is in a yearbook? Typically, it contains:
Senior portraits, underclass headshots, and faculty rosters
Candid moments from pep rallies, dances, and more
Highlights of sports and clubs
Polls, superlatives, and pop culture of the year
And of course, autograph pages filled with notes from classmates
The Dilemma
Yearbooks are not saved digitally
Each class carries countless stories, yet almost none of that history is preserved. With each passing year, it disappears, discarded, damaged, or forgotten, but yet it is so important.
Damage
Spills, tears and environmental conditions such as humidity can destroy them.
Disaster
Fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and more can wipe out all your history.
Limited Search
Content cannot be searched, indexed, or surfaced by name, event, or moment. What is not already known is effectively invisible.
Inaccessibility
With only a physical archive, alumni cannot access their history from anywhere in the world.
Yearbook Affordability
With sky high prices for annual yearbooks, many students cannot afford to purchase their own high school yearbook as a keepsake. With a yearbook archive, no student has to miss out on memories due to budget constraints.
The Solution: Touchstone Professional Yearbook Digitization
Transform your physical yearbooks into accessible digital archives
Scan
High resolution capture of every page, preserving detail, color, and layout.
Go Live
Publish searchable, online yearbooks accessible anytime, anywhere.
Archive
Store and protect yearbooks in a permanent, secure digital collection.
Why Use Touchstone to Digitize Your Yearbook?
Open Up a World of Opportunities with Your Online Yearbooks
Fast Speeds
Hundreds of pages load instantly, even the largest yearbooks.
Preserved Forever
Digitally archived to protect history from loss, decay, or damage.
Instant Searching
Find names, faces, clubs, and moments in seconds.
Universal Access
Available on any device, anywhere in the world.
Simple Sharing
Share pages or full yearbooks through a single link.
Grow With You
Easily add new years to your archive as time moves forward.
Our Critical Scanning of Yearbooks
Professional digitization process that preserves every detail of your precious memories
Quality Workmanship
Each yearbook is handled with care and respect in a secure production environment designed for archival materials.
High Resolution Scanning
Non destructive, high resolution scanning captures every page in full detail, from photo gloss to handwritten signatures.
Digital Restoration and Enhancement
Photographs are corrected to reduce fading, shadows, and creases while preserving the original look and character.
OCR Processing
Advanced text recognition makes names, clubs, and events fully searchable across your yearbook collection.
Secure Hosting and Delivery
Digitized yearbooks are hosted on a secure, cloud based platform for reliable access anytime, anywhere.
A Little Yearbook History
Knowing the history of yearbooks would be an extra layer to the preservation process. The question many people ask is, what is the yearbook invented or "when did yearbooks start?"
The First Yearbook
In 1841, the Yale Banner was the first known school yearbook in the United States.
To begin with, they were plain, large text books. With time, they developed to contain photographs forming the visual memory books that we have today.
It is a treasure of a culture that this rich history of yearbooks is worth saving.
Ready to Create Your Digital Yearbook?
Whether you're digitizing historical yearbooks or creating new ones, we have the perfect solution for your school.
Get Started TodayEasy & Straightforward Yearbook Digitization Rates
Simple, transparent pricing for individuals and discounted rates for schools and institutions digitizing yearbook collections at scale.
Pricing Benefits:
- Transparent pricing with no hidden fees
- Bulk discounts for institutions
- Flexible payment options
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Pricing tailored to your needs
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about digital yearbook services
The Best Protection to Your Memories
Your yearbook is not just a graduation book, it is an actual part of your own history. The purpose of yearbook lies in the associations it entails. Those links should not be lost in time.
Touchstone Digital Solutions gives you more than a digital version of the yearbook, it is a legacy. You are guaranteeing the answer to the question of what are yearbooks for? will never lose its meaning: it is to remember, to relate, to re-live the best days of our lives.
Be a part of thousands of happy clients who have left their memories with us.
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