I've never had much luck with music scanning software in the past, but I tried the v5 demo of PhotoScore and liked it so much that I bought the full version. I have version 6 which does a good job with standard printed music. They have an option that reads handwritten music, but I've not tried that yet. I've had it for less than a month and have only used it for piano & organ music. My only complaint so far is that the text recognition part of the program is not as good as I'd like. Too many expressions (cresc, rit, etc) are not read in correctly (I get 'tit' for 'rit' quite often). Phrases are sometimes interpreted as slurs and vice versa. Sometimes, but rarely, articulations and key changes are not always read correctly. These problems might be the result of poor scans.
The demo that came with Finale 2010 was pretty good too but I liked the user interface and final result from PhotoScore just a bit better. Compared to past versions of the one that comes with Finale and sharpeye, I find PhotoScore is good enough to make scanning music a viable input method for Finale (or Sibelius). It has saved me quite a bit of time. James Gilbert www.jamesgilbert.music.com > -----Original Message----- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On > Behalf Of Florence + Michael > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:00 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations > > I recently had a look at the demo of PhotoScore from http:// > www.neuratron.com/ : it looks very impressive. > > I haven't seen an independent review that compares the various > scanning programs, but I think they all have demo versions: I'd > certainly try all the available demos before making a decision. > > Michael _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
