Sheet music files

How Church Music Locker uses a PDF to fill in a piece, then discards the file instead of storing the score.

Church Music Locker does not keep a copy of your sheet music. A PDF is uploaded only so OCR can read the printed score; once that finishes (successfully or not), the file is discarded. You cannot view, download, or attach a PDF on a piece afterward.

Scanning a PDF

From Library → Import, upload a PDF. That’s the main way to fill in a piece from a score. See Scanning a PDF.

Scanning again from a piece

From a piece’s detail page, use Upload PDF to run OCR again. You’ll be asked to confirm first, because the new scan overwrites OCR-extracted details (composer, voicing, lyrics, and so on). For a multi-movement work, the new scan also replaces its movements.

Only PDF files are accepted. The uploaded file is discarded after it’s read.

What stays in the library

The catalog row stays — title, credits, lyrics, liturgical fields, quantity owned, and any external link you add. Collections can still have their own attached PDF (a cover or table of contents for a physical book); that’s independent of pieces. See Collections.