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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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See, that's a major missing detail. There's surely far less OCR software available for such information recovery ... though it's not clear what the nature of the information is inside the PDF. Is it just image information embedded in the PDFs, or is the actual symbol notation stored therein?
Fine, I edited it into the post. Still, OCR fails miserably at sheet music in my experience. These files are a mix of people scanning papers and PDFs coming directly from file-download websites. I can't have a single mistake from an OCR converter in my line of work.
How about something like a page editor? You can create a page with various elements, and manipulate them. Have a look at Scribus (for Linux) or other apps similar to Adobe Indesign.
Thanks, I had tried Scribus for something unrelated to this, but found it to be horribly counterintuitive in terms of how to even get started. I think it had a major update somewhat recently so I suppose I could retry it...
I mentioned Scribus but I never worked with it. I did use MS Publisher and InDesign because mixing images and text in a document editor was a pain. I used it for creating "collages".
That makes sense. The extent of my desktop-publishing work has typically involved bifold programs, so I use LibreOffice Writer's "brochure"-printing mode (which automatically sets every 4 pages as double-sided quarters of 1 sheet) because I can't stand how bad element selection in MS Publisher is. I've never used InDesign and want to avoid Adobe as much as possible since my org is already neck-deep in Microsoft's subscriptions as it is.
Don't get me wrong; Scribus can clearly make a lot of beautiful stuff. I just can't even start to figure it out; I gotta find video tutorials or something.
I get you. It's a question of finding the one app that works for your workflow. sometimes it takes years to find it