Sheet Music Scanner Reviews

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.

It’s relatively fast and accurate, and improves with each update. However, as with competing services, it still makes some misrecognitions, so manual corrections are essential. I primarily use it for Japanese choral scores and never use the output as is. I save the output as an .mscz file and treat it strictly as a draft. I visually check the output a few measures at a time in MuseScore. For the problem-free parts, which make up most of most songs, I simply copy and paste them directly into the clean copy file. For problematic parts, I either correct or retype them from scratch. In other words, it’s worth buying if it can speed up your workflow, even when you account for these steps.

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.

A few days ago I couldn't get into the software, but now it's working again

A few problems sometimes, but it makes my life so much easier

Had problems that no scan result comes for a few hours, but now everything is running perfectly again

Not perfect but so far the best scanner software

Works fine for me! Thanks for the software. I'm curious to see what will be possible with the full version

Even got something complicated almost completely right, good!

I just got it, and the first scans were all successful. Great!

Really good and fair for the one-time price