Sheet Music Scanner Reviews

At that price, you can't go wrong

I'm very happy with it, but I would like to see more updates and features.

I bought this back in august, the program never starts up on my mac. Opened 2 cases, had to follow-up intensely to get an answer, finally bailed out due to lack of answers. 6 months later, still not working.

Good and fast results

Support responded quickly and kindly!

I can recommend it to anyone who has a lot to do with music

Makes my work flow much easier

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.

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

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.

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 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.