Sheet Music Scanner

As stated in the title. It largely met my expectations and was even better in some ways. I haven't compared it to competitors' products, so I can't say if it's worth paying full price, but I'm very pleased with the value for money I got when I bought it in the sale. I was prepared for some recognition errors, such as misidentification of notes and instrumentation. However, when working with downloaded scores featuring simple instrumentation — i.e. scores that don't change instrumentation midway through a song and don't contain artefacts such as noise or tilt — there were none. I was honestly surprised. The conversion speed is also acceptable. For something like a simple choral score with piano accompaniment, it's much faster than performing it manually. Also, since I converted a song with Japanese lyrics, I didn't expect the lyrics to be recognised without errors. However, the fact that they were completely ignored exceeded my expectations. I was prepared for it to misrecognise letters that looked slightly similar and produce a messy result, but that didn't happen. Conversely, there were numerous errors in the tempo indications, chord notations, crescendos, decrescendos and rehearsal numbers. I expected this, so I deleted them all in MuseScore Studio and entered them manually. If you're hoping to reach a stage where you don't have to make these corrections manually, I'd say that's probably not feasible in the near future given the price range. These notations vary far more than musical notes, so recognising them all correctly would be no small feat. P.S. I found a few errors relating to the distinction between ties and slurs, the handling of small notes and accidentals in harmonically complex sections. In particular, it can be very difficult to spot when a slur is mixed in with a tie attached to a chord or when a slur with the same beginning and end note is recognised as a tie. Therefore, it is best to check the playback in MuseScore Studio just to be sure. P.P.S. This was originally written in Japanese and then translated by AI. I've made some manual corrections, but I apologise if there are any unsightly parts.

I was hoping this would speed up the process of transcribing vocal music. Unfortunately it doesn't recognize text at all, and one PDF that was slightly blurred (but still very much readable) did not translate correctly at all. There was so much wrong with it, it would have been much faster to input everything myself from scratch than fix the file that was rendered. It did work OK (minus the text) for a score that was probably made on music engraving software, so crystal clarity is important as a starting point, it seems. I'm guessing if I try to input a manuscript score I'll get a bunch of gibberish, but I haven't tested that yet. I hope future improvements make this purchase worthwhile, because right now it feels like I just wasted my money.

I just purchased the software and here's my experience with it, scanning jazz charts. The first was produced with Musescore and exported to PDF. The other was scanned from a paper Real Book. Oddly, the scanned paper did better then my Musecore produced PDF. DOCUMENT I: A Musescore produced PDF 1) There were eighth-note rests inserted into the measure that were not on the original. I suppose this is the reason the software ignored notes at the end of the measure. When they load in Musescore, they are coloured gray, which I understand means they don't print. 2) Not all of the chord symbols were included in the output. Only 11 of 33 were notated. 3) Two measures at the end of the piece were missing. DOCUMENT II: Scanned from a Realbook lead sheet 1) There was an extra, empty staff in the conversion 2) Only eight of around fifty chord symbols we captured, and it recognized a C6 chord as a Cb. 3) The 1st & 2nd endings were not recognized. 4) Instead of capturing an eighth note pickup, it inserted a bar of random eighth and quarter notes, preceded by a K clef. Overall, I'd say the software is still faster than rekeying a score, so I'm going to hold onto it and hope it improves as time goes on.

I just bought it yesterday. I pretty much always use lead sheets and I want to be able to convert lead sheets from the various fake books into the Musescore format. I just did my first one - a fairly crappy photocopy from The Real Book Vol 3 and it did a decent job. It missed a few chords and ties, but it was a huge time saver compared to manually entering the whole thing. It let's you save as an MCSZ file, which is really handy - another time saver.

This Programm works mainly good with excelent detailed Sheets made for PDF. Other Sheets may cause some mistakes, but it saves much time, because you do not have to transcribe the hole sheet, but just correct the mistakes. If the Programm gets better, ist a 10/10 for Music teachers, Music Clubs etc.

very practical for exporting my MIDI files

I'm happy so far, but I would like more features.

I had some verification problems, but the support helped me fast and friendly

Works overall pretty good!

It saves time and mostly accurate except when older scores (from imslp) are used and it doesn't recognize the instruments on the score. But efficient enough for some