Music Scanning for sound file

• Sep 11, 2020 - 15:11

Hi, Spent a lot of time on lockdown translating choir library music into Musescore so that I could send mps versions of parts to choir members for practice (hopefully).
Do you recommend a scanning software that will convert music dots into MuseScore. I believe Sebelius offer these but at great prices and not for a MVC's remit.
Any advice will be greatly received. Goodmusic now supply the music purchased in a new A4 format with seperated parts but no sound file available individually for parts - which is what I am aiming for.

Barry

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• Sep 12, 2020 - 15:45

Free solution: MuseScore allows you to upload a PDF file and have it run through the Audiveris optical music recognition (OMR) program. In MuseScore, follow the menu option File > Import PDF... - good luck, because the results do vary a lot.

Paid solutions: there are many commercial OMR programs, for example SharpEye, PhotoScore, ScanScore, SmartScore.

You can read more about OMR on the Wikipedia page titled Optical music recognition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition

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