My brother-in-law had a project recently which involved digitizing some vintage sheet music. Due to its age, the music had to be kept in a special binder and couldn’t be put on a scanner. I thought a bit on how to get the best images and ended up producing a step-by-step YouTube video. This solved his problem nicely.

For the curious, here are the pictures I captured from the camera. First is the unedited “direct from camera” shot.

And here is the image after some PP (rotate, crop, convert to B&W, adjust bright/contrast, sharpen). Actually this is too much sharpening… but then this was just a quick test to see how well things could clean up with a little work. More serious efforts would involve more serious TLC.