Digitize scores with notes and specific structuring for music composition and save the results as a text or PDF file. The utility recognizes up to 99.5% of the content including 4 and 6 line guitar tablature, 1, 2 and 3 line percussion staves, etc. Writing new scores directly in the program is possible.
Neuratron PhotoScore Ultimate is a high-end piece of software that will accurately scan and read any music scores, allowing you to print, playback, and edit them with professional results. It not only recognizes every note and chord present in printed scores, but it is also capable of digitizing most handwritten music representations, including accidentals, ornaments, ties, and slurs. The program can also open music scores saved as TIFF, BMP, or PDF files.
The whole digitizing process is covered in three different steps – scanning, reading, and editing. During the scanning phase, PhotoScore simply takes a “photograph” of each of the pages that make up the score. This process can be fully automated, allowing the user to find the right balance between accuracy and speed. The following step, “reading” (i.e. recognizing) the different symbols and features of the music notation present in the score, is, undoubtedly, the most complicated one. During this process, PhotoScore Ultimate will identify all the notes, chords, accidentals (including articulation marks), clefs, key and time signatures, systems, staves (including percussion and guitar tablature staves), ties, slurs, tuplets, lyrics, and so on. But the most amazing feature that this application offers is its ability to perform this “reading” process also in handwritten scores. Evidently, the level of accuracy of the final layout will largely depend on the clarity of the original writing. However, PhotoScore Ultimate’s advanced OCR technology, has reached a level of excellence not easily found in similar tools, accurately recognizing handwritten notes, chords, rests, accidentals, signatures, systems, staves, bar lines, ties, slurs, and even the format of the original page.
The third step is the interactive editing process. Here, the user can correct all those mistakes found during the reading process, as well as add new features not present in the original score. If the number of mistakes present is not acceptable, the user can make a number of adjustments in the reading settings and “re-read” the page again to improve the final result. The numerous editing functions available are very easy to use, allowing the user to drag and drop, cut and paste, and make use of signs tables to move, modify, and insert almost any element and marking in the music score.
To help the user during the editing process, PhotoScore Ultimate can play any fragment (or the whole score) as many times as needed, using its MIDI capabilities.
v5.5 [Jun 17, 2008]
PhotoScore Ultimate is the new name for PhotoScore Professional and reflects its wealth of powerful new features. Version 5 offers the following major improvements over 4:
- Dual-engine printed music recognition - Accuracy reaches dizzying heights!
By combining the two most accurate printed music scanning engines in the world (each independently developed), PhotoScore Ultimate achieves recognition accuracy far greater than the sum of the engines - it really has to be seen to be believed!
- Handwritten score recognition! You read correctly - Neuratron has been very busy and has made a massive technological breakthrough with the world's first and only music scanning software designed to read handwritten, as well as printed, scores. Currently optimized to read freshly written music (rather than old archives) PhotoScore Ultimate 5 gives musicians the freedom to compose music away from their computer, perhaps next to their favorite instrument, or relaxing in a field a long way from civilization!
- Edit while PhotoScore reads - PhotoScore now reads in the background leaving you free to edit or rearrange each page as it is recognized
- Advanced scanned image management system - Worry less about managing scanned pages with the new Pages Pane - it completely replaces the defunct Scanned pages dialog
- Repeat ending, Coda and Segno recognition
- Cross-staff note and beam recognition
- Recognition of ornaments such as trills, mordants and turns, in addition to pedal on and off markings
- Now a Universal Binary application so runs at full speed on all Macs
- Improved recognition of text, now in up to 120 different languages
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