Sheet Music Scanner

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

I tried the software to convert scores in original sharp PDFs (parts for baritone in Bb) and it worked almost flawless. I only had to import the MuseXML in MuseScore, transpose and change the key and I could play the baritone parts on my trombone. With hardly any changes needed. Perfect, it saved me a lot of time.