While there have been a few devices around to display music notation, the problem was that it took far too long for me to actually get my sheet music into those devices. As a technologist and a serious amateur musician, I always wanted to use one of those devices and so many years ago with great excitement I bought a MusicPad tablet. However, I found that the process of pulling in my sheet music was painfully slow and I had to use external image processing software such as Photoshop to clean up the scanned images and so forth. Consequently, it took about 5-10 minutes to import each page of sheet music. No way could I afford to spend that amount of time.

So I ended up not really using the tablet for anything serious.

Years later, along came the Kindle DX from Amazon. This thing had the ability to display images and PDF files and I thought, if only I had an easy way to get my sheet music into it efficiently, this could be really cool. So along with my partners, we created Deskew Technologies, LLC. By the way, the word "deskew" (pronounced dee-skew) means to straighten. Amazingly, the domain deskew.com was not taken so we grabbed it.

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