Guides for music librarians
Practical knowledge about digitising your sheet music library: scanning, sorting, assigning parts – whichever software you end up using.
Digitising a sheet music library rarely fails because of the software. It fails on the questions that come first: what resolution should you scan at? What do you do with A3 sheets? Who assigns the parts, and how long does that take? These guides answer exactly those questions – from practice, vendor-neutral, and without assuming you use Notenarchiv.
Digitising sheet music: a guide for bands and orchestras
From a paper library to a digital collection – how to plan, scan, name, assign and roll out in your ensemble without the project stalling halfway.
Read the guide →Scanning sheet music: resolution, format and settings
Which dpi, colour or greyscale, which file format? The scanner settings that work for sheet music – plus A3, stapled editions and phone scans.
Read the guide →Splitting combined PDFs and A3 pages
The scanner put every part into one file, or read A3 sheets sideways? Here is how to break that into clean individual parts in the browser – with no PDF software.
Read the guide →Downloading parts: combined PDF, ZIP or single part
Which download format fits when – and how saved instrumentations let you build a combined PDF that contains exactly the copies your rehearsal needs.
Read the guide →Sheet music offline: rehearsal rooms without Wi-Fi
How the Notenarchiv app keeps parts on your device – the automatic cache, marking individual pieces as offline, and rules by instrument and music book.
Read the guide →Importing several scores into forScore at once
How a complete part from a music book travels into forScore in a single pass: straight from the Notenarchiv app, or via forScore's own import window.
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