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How to Scan Multiple Pages in SharpEye

Overview

For 4 or 5 or more pages, we recommend using SharpEye's Batch process which is described here.

Scanning pieces of two or three page pieces is described in the rest of this document. Scanning multiple pages is covered in Multi-page Scores in SharpEye's manual. For pieces with just a few pages, we recommend using the process that involves converting the pages individually (Read | Read) and then combining them (in SharpEye).

Combining pages using File, Open Music:

  1. Process each page separately:
    1. Use File, Acquire or File, Open Image,
    2. Use Read(menu), Read to recognize the image,
    3. Fix errors,
    4. Use File, Save Music and when you specify the name, indicate the page number.
  2. After all of the pages have been processed:
    1. Use File | Open Music to open the first page and click on Replace if the Replace or append music is displayed.
    2. For each additional page, use File | Open Music and click on Append in the Replace or append music

Details

  1. Process each page separately (see scanning section of Creating Music Braille using SharpEye2, Lime and GOODFEEL) and save each page with File | Save Music As... (Alt+F, A) and put some indication of the page number in each file name to help you keep track of the pages, for example, FurElisePage1.mro.
  2. Use File | Open Music... (Alt+F, O) to select the first page's file and click on Replace if you get the Replace or append music dialog.
  3. For each remaining page: go to File | Open Music... (Alt+F, O), select the next page's file and click on Append in the Replace or append music dialog.
  4. Use File | Save Music As... (Alt+F, A) to save the whole piece using a name that won't get confused with the individual page file names, for example, FurEliseComplete.mro.
  5. Then, to bring your music into Lime, go to File | MusicXML | Save As... (Alt+F, U, A), open Lime and import this MusicXML file that you just saved (Alt+F, I, X) and then double-click your file and just press Enter when the XML Import Options dialog is displayed.

Click here for a page with a movie about combining just a few pages using File, Open.

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