It's a long story, but my obsession with Ubuntu continues this weekend.

I'm learning the piano and I have a lot of sheet music lying around - scribblings from my teacher, scales, exercises and songs to play. Also, I've recently joined the Apple bandwagon and bought an iPad. So I'm thinking, wouldn't it be good if I could have all of this music on my iPad?

I'm not a big fan of trawling the net for applications to convert scanned documents to PDF, to join them together, then ultimately being disappointed because it didn't work quite how I expected.

So, I scanned my sheet music to TIFF documents.

On Ubuntu I installed 'TIFF2PDF', like this: -

sudo apt-get install tiff2pdf

I also installed 'PDFTK', like this: -

sudo apt-get install pdftk

To convert my TIFF files to PDFs I used: -


tiff2pdf c_blues_scale.tif -o c_blues_scale.pdf
tiff2pdf c_major_scale.tif -o c_major_scale.pdf


To join them up I used: -

pdftk c_blues_scale.pdf c_major_scale.pdf output Scales.pdf

I hope this is useful to someone, I was quite pleased with its' simplicity!

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