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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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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