Saturday, August 4, 2018

A Guide To Yearbook Digitization

By Margaret Cole


It might come as a surprise that there is a strong demand to digitize yearbooks. There are a multitude of reasons why. The guide below has some pointers to help you to learn about yearbook digitization and to choose the ideal route for your requirements.

It is easy to see why so many people are interested to learn ways to digitize yearbooks. In years past High School Junior High and Elementary school yearbooks were very heavy items filled with photos of classmates. Today they are a bit more contemporary in style and some are even available in digital formats.

For instance a lot of publishers today are eager to give students the chance to share books digitally. As well because there is no paper involved in the production this can save money and be less wasteful. As well many people are interested to have yearbooks from years past converted to digital formats.

After all part of the fun of a yearbook is being able to relive the memories with your circle of friends. For that reason a lot of people are interested in being able to share the pictures and text via social media and other networks. It is easy to see why the demand for digitizing processes is very strong today.

Certainly the technology required for the job is in use in many other sectors. Many libraries are turning to digital technologies to help them to archive large volumes of material. This can cut way down on the space needed for storing old books. As well, with plenty of back ups in place it is a way of safeguarding information that might be lost otherwise. In very simple terms, the process involves scanning digitally each page of a publication and storing it in computer formats.

There are many different companies which are providing this kind of service around the country. Typically it might require that you send off your yearbook to the company. It will be returned to you after the digitization process occurs. Your yearbook in digital form will be sent to you by e-mail or through a secure server online.

Since the end result is not only cheap but simple to share using a computer, this opens many opportunities for not only consumers but schools, universities and businesses to share text and pictures from printed publications. In fact there are many colleges and universities that are turning to archiving past issues of campus newspapers and similar publications.

If you are not able to access the funding for an expensive project, you can find some very simple ways of scanning photos and computer files. For example many personal printers have the capacity to scan. This allows you to scan pages from publications such as yearbooks to convert to digital format. Any time that you are copying or sharing a document, make sure that you have the appropriate legal permissions to do so. For further help on this topic there are numerous blogs and websites online that deal especially with computers. Many include step by step guidance to walk you through the process.




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