Sheet Music Scanner Reviews

Not everything is perfect, but overall it's good enough

I don't know what all the bad comments are about? I also got very good results with complicated sheet music. You can't really go wrong with a one-time purchase.

Mostly unable to appropriately scan scores. Close to a scam.

The results are not only wrong but complete nonsensical hallucinations. This would only (maybe) work for a very simple piano tune on 1 staff. Should not be able to be sold.

I had some verification problems at first, but thankfully that's been fixed now. Everything's fine now.

I'm happy with Halbestunde, but it would be good if the lyrics were also scanned.

That was a great discovery! It scans my PDFs really accurately

Only used it a few times. Discouraged by its inaccuracy. I've had to manually edit in a GREAT NUMBER of places each time. Probably will not use it again. An expensive lesson to learn ... even though I bought it at a discount. MuseScore's own "Import PDF" feature does a much better job, and it comes free with MuseScore 3 & 4. (Maybe earlier too; not sure.)

Unless you compose only with piano, it’s a complete waste of time and storage space. Good idea but sucks in the way its built. If there’s a specific score you want arranged or put in MIDI, do it yourself or hire someone. It’ll be cheaper and much, much, much better.

I am a working jazzmusician and composer and its a nice starting point for copying scores into Musescore. However its so unaccurate, that you will still get left with a lot of layout and correcting work. If you just want to quickly transpose something, save your money and practice your reading and transposing, in the long run its probably faster ;)

it's a good start but requires a lot of polishing before i can say it was worth the 50EUR price.

For a one-off purchase like this, it's perfectly fine and you won't go far wrong.

I like it and I'm looking forward to further updates!

I'm missing the lyrics, but the sheet music was all scanned correctly.

I had a problem with the login and the support team helped me a lot!

It delivers good results, even with my longer songs This makes the workflow considerably faster.

I am very unsatisfied with the performance of this app. Choral music gets transcribed horrible. A lot of mistakes - even in discount I would not bye this app agein

Bought this to transfer Sibelius’ Symphonies to midi. apart from the quality is terrible, there are places where the file is uncompatible with musescore, making me unable to open the score. Tried on a Beethoven Piano Sonata, much more satisfying, but just when rhythm become complicated it cannot align. Simpler notations works best…

It's really useful, but I wish it would also recognize the text.

It really helps me a lot in my daily work, it takes so much work off my hands.

One of the better digitization software around the market. I have tried many and this one is probably the easiest to use and it capture the main melody notes. The scan doesn't detect words, mainly notes. Which can possibly save you hours. If scan quality is not good and doesn't have clear separation. you are better off keying in manual fresh from start. Get it while it's on sale! pretty good deal if purchased on sales price.

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.