FlowkeyPracticePDF

A tiny GUI that turns a locally saved Flowkey page into a clean, paginated PDF of the sheet music.

⚠️ Disclaimer
This project is provided for educational and personal use only.

• You may use this tool to generate sheet music only for your own practice, in accordance with your Flowkey subscription.
• Do not use this tool to publish, distribute, or share copyrighted music scores obtained from Flowkey or any third-party service.
• Any misuse of this tool may violate copyright law and Flowkey’s terms of service.
• See the LICENSE file for full details.

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What it does

1. Reads your saved HTML/HTM file.
2. Extracts all sheet images into an images/ folder beside the HTML.
3. Detects barlines and wraps lines only at measure boundaries.
4. Builds an A4 PDF with your chosen layout.

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🚀 Installation

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/pmgarderes/FlowkeyPracticePDF.git
cd FlowkeyPracticePDF

Install dependencies (Python 3.8+ recommended):

pip install -r requirements.txt

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📖 Usage

Save the HTML correctly (important)

1. Open the song in your browser.
2. (might be needed- see later) Scroll through all pages so every sheet image loads.
3. Save the page locally (e.g., right-click-> “Save page as…” → Webpage, Complete).
   • You’ll get SongName.htm(l) in a folder you choose.

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Run the app

python flowkey2pdf_gui_debug.py

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Using the GUI

1. Select HTML/HTM…
   Pick the .html/.htm you saved. The app auto-fills the images/ folder beside it.

2. 1) Extract Images

   • Downloads/copies every page of the sheet into <html_folder>\images\sheet_###.png.
   • If it says “No images”, make sure you scrolled the whole song before saving.

3. Set layout

   • Measures per line: e.g., 4.0 (average target).
   • Zoom: < 1.0 = smaller (more content per page), > 1.0 = larger.
   • Hard threshold (binarize tiles) (optional): check this only if some images appear with a colored or tinted background (e.g., green hue).
     When enabled, it converts each tile to pure black & white before stitching. Normally this should stay unchecked, since it can slightly thin out staff lines.

4. (Optional) Show advanced/debug

   • Threshold: leave blank to auto-detect (Otsu on normalized grayscale), or type a number (e.g., 200).
   • Min height %: how much of the staff height a vertical line must cover to count as a barline (default 50).
   • Min continuous %: how uninterrupted that vertical line must be (default 50).
   • Probe detection saves overlays (debug/ folder) showing detected bars (red) and measure boundaries (green).

   Note: If you notice missing lines or other problems, please enable debugging, check “Save debug overlays”, and send me the resulting images from the debug/ folder together with the parameters you used — this will help identify the issue.

5. Build PDF

   • Choose the output filename.
   • The app writes a clean A4 PDF with no gaps between measures.

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Typical workflow (30 seconds)

1. Select HTML → Extract Images
2. Measures per line = 4.0, Zoom = 0.9
3. (Optional) Probe detection → check debug/overlay_*.png
4. Build PDF

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Output layout

YourSongFolder/
├─ YourSong.htm(l)
├─ images/
│  ├─ sheet_001.png
│  ├─ sheet_002.png
│  └─ ...
├─ debug/                (only if you used debugging)
│  ├─ stitched.png
│  ├─ stitched_gray.png
│  ├─ gray_norm.png
│  ├─ binary_norm_thrXXX.png
│  └─ overlay_thr...png
└─ YourPDF.pdf

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⭐ Stay Updated

If you find this tool useful, please watch and star the repository on GitHub.
This helps me know people are interested, and I’ll post updates or improvements there.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under a Personal, Non-Commercial Use License.
See LICENSE for details.

Tips & troubleshooting

• Green-tinted pages?
  The app converts images to grayscale internally before layout—this eliminates palette/ICC issues. If you still see tint, ensure you’re running the latest script and not an older version still in memory.

• “No images found”

  • Scroll the whole piece before saving the HTML.
  • Some songs may use different selectors; default is .sheet-container .scrollable-sheet .sheet-image.

• “No measures detected” or wrong splits

  • Click Show advanced/debug → Probe detection.
  • Try a Threshold of 180–210, or leave blank for auto.
  • If barlines don’t span both staves: set Min height % to 45, Min continuous % to 45.
  • Check debug/overlay_*.png to see what the detector saw.

• Paths / permissions

  • If saving to OneDrive causes “Access denied”, choose another folder.
  • The GUI uses a file picker, so you don’t need to type paths.

• Speed

  • Large songs: the first stitch/scale is the slowest step. It only happens once per “Build PDF”.