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Tips for image editing
Reviewing and/or editing scanned or imported sheet music can help improve the recognition accuracy. That's why it’s a good idea to open your graphic sheet music in the image editor before starting the recognition process.
These are the most important tips to consider prior to recognizing your scans:
Tip 1: Check the quality of the scan …
Examine the first page that appears in the Image Editor. Use the Zoom tool to look more closely. Are notes and rests solid black against a solid white background? They should be. Or do they appear like "salt & pepper", grainy and "shot full of holes"? If so, then it’s likely your music was "Half-toned" during scanning (otherwise known as "dithering"). Dithered images cannot be fixed in the Image Editor. You will have to rescan your pages making sure you scan in "Greyscale" (sometimes referred to as "Text") and not in B&W or Color. See also:
Tip 2: Remove pages …
SmartScore can only recognize music pages. Cover sheets, title pages, tables of contents, index pages or editorial pages must be deleted prior to Recognition. These pages (front matter) usually appear when importing PDF music files.
buttons to navigate to the page you want to remove from the multi-page image file. button in the image editor toolbar.
Tip 3: Retouch (Check your system brackets) …
It is critical that system brackets and/or the solid line along the left margin connecting staff lines together into a single system group are unbroken and readable during recognition. Important pre-recognition checks can be found here:
Tip 4: Straighten …
Pages that are not squared up with edges of the scanner may result in reduced recognition accuracy. Check all your scanned pages for straightness in the Image Editor prior to recognition… it will save a lot of grief should you find Page 10 is poorly recognized because of severe skewing after you had already edited nine pages. Find out how easy it is to straighten crooked pages here:
Tip 5: Thresholding (Grey to Black&White conversion) …
Original scores that were faded or scanned with too can be made more "readable" for SmartScore PROVIDED they were scanned in Greyscale first. You can find out how this works here:
Tip 6: Cropping …
If you have two independent songs on one page, or if the music takes up only a small portion of the page, you can use the crop tool to focus in on the area in page of music to the area that interests you. You can find out how it works here:
