PRINCETON, N.J. - s4story -- Entourage Yearbooks today announced general availability of AI photo tagging, a set of tools that automatically identifies students in candid yearbook photos and reports how many times each student appears in the book.
The feature addresses a problem every yearbook staff knows and few can measure. Across the books Entourage prints, roughly 10 to 25 percent of students are underrepresented — and in most cases the photographs exist. They sit untagged in the school's own uploads because identifying every face in every crowd shot by hand is work no volunteer staff has time to do.
AI photo tagging works in two steps. The system first trains on the school's existing portrait pages, using each student's portrait as that student's reference image. Advisers then run automatic tagging across a photo category or the entire book; the system detects faces in each candid and matches them to the trained roster. Results feed a Photo Index of per-student appearance counts, with a filter to count only photos already placed on a page.

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Matching is scoped to a single yearbook and limited to the roster the school itself provides. The system does not generate images, cannot identify anyone outside the school's own portrait data, and presents every tag for adviser review. The trained face collection is deleted once the book is published.
"Facial recognition is a powerful tool, and one that requires great care and security. We've taken extensive measures to make sure our AI tagging does one thing — make life easier for yearbook advisers and their staffs — without anyone having to worry about that data being used for anything else," said Elias Jo, Founder and CTO of Entourage Yearbooks.
AI photo tagging entered production in June 2026 and is available now to Entourage Yearbooks schools as an upgrade to the company's online design platform. The Photo Index is included for all Entourage schools.
About Entourage Yearbooks Entourage Yearbooks is a modern yearbook publishing company that helps schools design, proof, and print custom yearbooks through an integrated online platform. Part of the ECS family of companies — which includes Picaboo Yearbooks, RememberMe Yearbooks, and Quantum Fulfillment, its in-house manufacturing operation — Entourage pairs domestic printing and fulfillment with a growing suite of design and AI tools built to make yearbook creation faster, easier, and more collaborative for advisers, students, and staff. Learn more at https://www.entourageyearbooks.com.

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