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I am a pianist whose paper scores are covered with messy fingerings written in, often with an ugly blotch covering up the finger notation that I disagreed with.

... I may need to do my annotation work on a different setup, modifying my PDF files to the way I want them before importing them.
... Please get me pointed right.

NOW you have the best chance to start with clean score again. Go urtext, go years back and have fun. Clean table.