Cannot detect scanner

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kenbell
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Finale Version: Finale 2012 for Mac
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Post by kenbell » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:59 pm

Finale 2012 for Mac. Trying to scan music. Scanner is online.

SmartScore Lite cannot detect the scanner. Are there particular scanners that it will detect?


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miker
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Finale Version: Finale 27.4
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Post by miker » Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:37 pm

Welcome to the forum.

In this case, we can actually blame Apple, for their failure to support many scanners.

This page from Muistek details the issue. http://musitek.com/scanningnotes.html

My solution is to scan through Image Capture.
My settings are Black and White, 300 DPI. I also use Manual Image Correction and take the brightness down, and the contrast up.
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