G'day all'

Kendall: If I need to send 'sheet music', I just scan as Black & White (saves lots of space), 300 dpi and send as a TIF or a GIF. JPG at high compressions eats detail, but is esential for full colour photographs (good editing programs allow setting the level of compression, but that is not what you asked for).

Alison: I got a light version of OmniPage OCR with the beautiful little Canon 630 scanner I just bought. The light version doesn't match the professional one I use at work (and the Canon cop-out on an interface for straight scanning doesn't match anything that HP would provide) but it all works and is very neat and compact.

I have yet to see a music OCR working well but the local (to you and me) computer nerds swear they do. Dave De Santi has held a few Music/Computer workshops at Jamberoo ... and I think I saw something similar in the Provisional Programme for the National. It must come - and maybe it already has.

Regards,

Bob Bolton (Who used to do beautiful music calligraphy by hand ... but "Where is the key change, correction, respace control?"