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Scanning into NWC

I'm relatively new to NWC (2 yrs) and my computer crashed recently. I have most all my music printed out (I even print the "sketches"), but I need to get this back into NWC. I know I can re-enter it note by note, but I have a string quartet that is 12 pages long and not finished. Is there any way to scan printed music into NWC? Thanks in advance

Re: Scanning into NWC

Reply #1 –
Commiserations on the crash.

If you have NWC2, there is help at hand...

There are other threads that cover this topic, but very quickly, there is a product called Sharpeeye2 that will scan printed music - 't'ain't perfect but works tolerably well.  Add to this a tool called mxml2nwc - there's a link here somewhere - and you've got a useful solution.

What you do is scan the music with SharpeEye2, do some basic edits to remove the obvious errors and thus give a better saved document.  You save as mxml format.  You then read this mxml format file into NWC2 with mxml2nwc.

The result is surprisingly good.
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Re: Scanning into NWC

Reply #2 –
And a reminder here that the issue really isn't scanning so much as it is data backup.  Be sure to backup your data often.  CDR and DVDR disks are so cheap these days, that it is easy to just burn your data to one of those disks.  Then put it the disk on the shelf.  If you get in the habit of doing that once a week, then you will never lose more than a week's worth of work.  If you are working on something important, back it up more often.

- John
John

Re: Scanning into NWC

Reply #3 –
Chances are really good that if you have internet access, your internet service provider includes a certain amount of server storage space in your service.  That's a good place to backup a limited quantity of important data files, since it's offsite.   It works just about like another folder on your system.  NWC files are so small, it's ideal for them.