scanning

• Feb 22, 2011 - 08:10

i think there should be a direct feature to allow you to scan music into musescore

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• Jul 15, 2015 - 04:37

I think it would be useful to be able to import a scan (jpeg or other formats is fine) and sort of 'trace over' that in MuseScore. I don't mind redoing sheet music in Muse Score but just the act of looking at a page then looking at the MuseScore interface seems to make the process go a lot slower (especially for a newbie like me). The process is really helpful. This has taught me a lot about music.

I played around with Audiveris but got results that seemed like they might take longer to fix then if I just 'traced' them as alluded to above. Might have been my inexperience with Audiveris.

I realize that MuseScore has a Canvas feature that might be useful... I'm hoping to get any pointers before digging into it.

Thank you all.

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• Jul 15, 2015 - 14:10

I agree: existing standalone software for optical music recognition (OMR) is easy to use, and MusicXML provides a quick way to import the result into MuseScore. For two years I have been using SharpEye OMR to capture music which is long out of print (and out of copyright, by the way). SharpEye shows up any discrepancies in the note totals per measure, so I correct those errors before exporting as MusicXML. See visiv.co.uk for details of SharpEye.

MuseScore 2.0 does a great job of importing the resulting MusicXML file, and also validates before import. So MuseScore can provide the list of any errors before you even commit to importing the XML file.

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• Jul 15, 2015 - 17:39

Thanks for the great recommendation. The system requirements doesn't indicate any Windows version more recent than Vista but I'm guessing that won't pose s problem... anyways there's a 30 day evaluation version so I should be able to test the compatibility with Win 7 pretty easily.

Still curious to know if the Canvas feature will allow 'tracing' of music jpegs... as an alternate workflow. I guess I'll have to try it out.

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• Jul 15, 2015 - 18:15

If I understand what you mean, I wouldn't expect great results. While you could presumably get the background to show up, as you entered notes it would be very unlikely the spacing would exactly match up. So you'd be entering notes on top of *different* notes much of the time, I imagine.

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