Saving Music Scores after Scanning

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Saving Music Scores after Scanning Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:46 am • by dh110953
I have started to use software that now displays my music scores on a tablet PC which is great as it means I do not have to lug around all the books.

I am now starting to scan all my music scores and save them as PDF's so I can use them on the tablet (saving them to Google Docs). I am using a SnapScan S1300 and this works fine and I use the OCR tool that was bundled, this then means I can pick out the text in the score and use this to rename the PDF files to a song/music title - this is proving to be very time consuming as I have to wait for the file to open after scanning, then manualy select the text and paste this into the file name before saving....I am thinking "Can Hazel" help me automate this by interrogating the scanned PDF, recognizing the song title from the music score and the renaming the file based on the title. If it can, then my investment in Hazel will be doubly justified - though it may be a bit of an ask ?

I have been using Hazel for about 3 years now, with some basic workflows (I am far from a expert and know nothing about writing apple scripts I hasten to add) but not quite sure how to write a workflow that will do this, if indeed it is possible.

Any genius out there who can solve this ?

Cheers

David
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Re: Saving Music Scores after Scanning Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:58 am • by Mr_Noodle
You can use "Contents contain match" to do that. Search the help for "match patterns" to get started. Also, try searching the support knowledge base as there are probably articles available that go further. And of course, you can always post here if you run into specific problems.
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