Howdy Tom,

I also use a program by Neuratron called PhotoScore MIDI Lite. It is a very basic scanning app that only exports to .mid, and only costs $24. I've found it to be very useful for scanning in hymns and other music (such as piano scores) that I needed to rearrange for sheet music for multiple instruments. This setup has worked fine for my needs, but I also haven't added a whole lot of annotations or dynamic marks (I do add some, just not prolific amounts).

Mark is correct that the best method is XML, but using the scanner app to export a .mid to Composer also works pretty darn well ;)

ttfn,
Sherry