I gave up with scanning music - there were so many mistakes that it was easier and quicker to re-type the entire document than scan, check and correct.
Sorry, Lawrence On 22 January 2014 19:54, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > I used a variety of scan formats and they all produced identical > results. One was a 600 BPI TIFF grey scale. > > It is hard to believe that the scanner model would make such a > difference because the image at 600 BPI is extremely crisp on my scanner > (which happens to be a Brother. > > I did some tests where I scanned separately and opened the TIFF under > Finale. I did others where I let Finale do the scanning and the results > were the same. > > Here is an example of the problems: > 1-4 should be a multimeasure rest. Shows up as one measure with 2 bad > notes > 5 No slur or dynamic > 6 No slur > 7 No slur or tie > 9 No opening repeat. Should be 4-bar multi-measure. Recognized as one > measure with 2 bad notes. > 13 No slur or tie > 14 missing slur and tie > 16 missing staccato and tie > 17 missing articulations > > Every single measure would require some editing, which obviously is not > a good trade-off of time. In the past, I did have somewhat better > success with less jazzy music fonts. However, the things the scanners > are missing are not the notes so much. They are slurs, ties, > expressions, and they aren't that much different in the jazz font. > > I'd rather not buy a new scanner, as I have two multi-function units > nearby already, and one of them does up to 11x17. The cheapest Epson > 11x17 scanner is over $1500, and I bet it wouldn't do any better than my > Brother MFC. > > > > On 1/22/2014 11:07 AM, Scott Jones wrote: > > After watching Tom Johnson of Finale scan in clinics with relative ease > I have gone back to scanning. He tells us that certain scanners are better > than others for scanning and that a dpi of 500 or better will achieve > optimal results. 300 dpi is pretty awful in scanning music even though we > were all told that long ago it was acceptable. I watched Tom scan in a > random band score at the Midwest clinic in Dec. and it produced every note > that was on the page correctly as seen using the free version of smartscore > lite. Yes there were no text on the scanned page but he also added that > instead of taking the scanned page and turning it into your finished doc > you should copy the info from it and paste into a new doc set up how you > want the final score to look like. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
