In my opinion scanning is a waste of time. The other options are in order of MY preference:

1. Enter it note by note, and write the chords in while doing so. Some people may not be able to figure out the chords though.

2. Find it in the vast number of Band in a box tunes that other have.

3. Find a midi file, import it, fiddle with it, and come up with something close.

4. Find a fakebook from a site like Notes Norton's, and use the book to play along with the chords and styles he provides.

5. Enter the piece directly to Band in a Box yourself, both notes and chords.

6. Buy a fakebook and enter the chords and or notes yourself.

Our brass band rehearsal social hour turned into this discussion about scanning music. At least 5 of the people are music geeks at university, and all admit that trying to scan music is for the most part, a waste of time. I've cut apart books, scanned what I thought were great looking scores and had them come out wrong.

Then, worse, brass band scores are small, and do things like put a rest backwards to double it, save space with endings and weird codas and repeats, that just never would work.

John Conley
Musica est vita