Anyone who has attended an introductory economics course has probably heard the question "What is the only thing left for a millionaire to economize" and the answer is of course "Time".

We all have a finite amount of time in which to live our lives and so it's a shame to have to waste time on stuff we shouldn't have to do. Further, if you work for a living, then it makes economic sense to pay for products or services that cost less than what it would cost you to do the work yourself. In general this is true for anything where the experience itself is not beneficial or of interest. (For example, don't bother paying somebody else to exercise for you!)

The above is the philosophy that has driven much of my work, essentially building applications and tools that saved users time.

The goal of Scorecerer, our flagship product, is to save users from the drugery portion of mangaing their music scores so that they can focus on, well, playing their music. The traditional approach to getting music scores into your computer (never mind to the actual device where you eventually need them) is time consuming, often requiring expertise in fields not relevant to the task at hand.

1. Configure your scanner software. Is it set to the right resolution? Do you need color, grayscale, B&W scanning? What IS the right resolution? Does it depend on the device to where you want to ultimately read it? What's the resolution of that device?
2. Make sure the paper is perfectly aligned on your flatbed scanner. That's not as easy as you'd think since music score paper is often just slightly bigger than what will fit inside the glass area of the scanner. Most of the time, your scan will be slightly crooked
3. Scan it into some temporary location.
4. Use photoshop or some other image processing application to straighten the page, get rid of borders, removing other artifacts and so forth.
5. "Somehow" combine multiple images together to make a complete score
6. Lots more stuff before you finally have ONE song ready for use

I've had to do this with some older systems and it took me (typically) about 10 minutes per song. That's a LOT Of wasted time. With Scorecerer, the workflow is much simplified.

1. Scan your music into a temporary folder. Don't worry whether your scanner is doing color, grayscale, or B&W. Don't worry if you didn't lay the paper down perfectly aligned on the scanner glass.
2. Drop one or more scanned pages into Scorecerer. By default they will automatically be straightened. You can also enable automatic border removal or adjust borders manually.
3. Click the "publish" button and select your device.