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title: Importing music
description: Two ways to add music to your library without entering every piece by hand — scanning a PDF or bulk-importing a spreadsheet.
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Adding pieces one at a time in the Library works, but Church Music Locker also has two faster paths for building up a library:

**[Scanning a PDF](/docs/importing-music/scanning-a-pdf)**

Upload a PDF and let OCR read its metadata for you.

**[Spreadsheet import](/docs/importing-music/spreadsheet-import)**

Bulk-import an existing Excel or CSV catalog.

Scanning a PDF runs OCR to fill in a piece's metadata from the score, then discards the file. Spreadsheet import creates catalog rows from your existing Excel or CSV export.