03-13-2017, 01:20 AM
I use Libre Offfice (free) to scan from my HP Multi function printer.
After a bit of experimenting with changing the brightness and contrast settings in the scan driver, I achieved a custom setting that will faithfully scan old and yellowed scores as well as pristine scores and always give a nice black and white image in Libre Office.
I then crop out the unwanted wide borders etc and resize (with aspect ratio preserved) so it fills the entire page (probably don't need to this with the auto crop function in MobileSheets, but I do anyway in case I want to print a hard copy).
I then select 'Export to PDF' function, and job done!
Because I am using a flatbed scanner, I don't need to straighten crooked edges and if I want to do any editing I will either edit the original before scanning (to correct wrong chords, misprints etc) or use the annotation facility in MobileSheets for preference issues.
So far I have scanned in 4 of the Busker books (over 400 scores) in 5 days.
Alan.
After a bit of experimenting with changing the brightness and contrast settings in the scan driver, I achieved a custom setting that will faithfully scan old and yellowed scores as well as pristine scores and always give a nice black and white image in Libre Office.
I then crop out the unwanted wide borders etc and resize (with aspect ratio preserved) so it fills the entire page (probably don't need to this with the auto crop function in MobileSheets, but I do anyway in case I want to print a hard copy).
I then select 'Export to PDF' function, and job done!
Because I am using a flatbed scanner, I don't need to straighten crooked edges and if I want to do any editing I will either edit the original before scanning (to correct wrong chords, misprints etc) or use the annotation facility in MobileSheets for preference issues.
So far I have scanned in 4 of the Busker books (over 400 scores) in 5 days.
Alan.