PhotoScore Professional

...scans and reads printed music into Sibelius. Once the music is read, you can edit or transpose the score in Sibelius, play it back, extract parts and print - just as if you'd input it yourself. PhotoScore builds on the features of PhotoScore Lite (which is included free with Sibelius), in three important areas: reads more, reads faster, and is more accurate.

Benefits of PhotoScore Professional over PhotoScore Lite

Reads more
PhotoScore is the most advanced software package of its kind. Capable of reading thirty-two staves of music per page, two polyphonic voices per stave, as many as eight different types of clef, seven different kinds of accidentals, and articulation marks like staccato, tenuto, hairpins, and fermatas (pauses). PhotoScore even reads text, which is included in your score for editing in Sibelius.
(Note that text reading cannot be as accurate as dedicated text OCR software because of the wide variety of fonts and sizes used in each score.)

Reads faster
The full professional version of PhotoScore is up to 60% faster than PhotoScore Lite. Because PhotoScore is so quick to read a page, it's the lightning-fast way to make arrangements, transpositions and editions.

More accurate
PhotoScore uses specially optimised optical recognition routines to gain higher levels of accuracy than ever before, and the more accurate PhotoScore becomes, the less time needs to be spent by the user to correct errors.

Feature Comparison: PhotoScore Lite and Full Versions

Feature Lite Full
Reads articulation marks no yes
Reads slurs, etc. no yes
Reads hairpins no yes
Reads double & repeat barlines no yes
Reads text (lyrics) no yes
Number of accidental types 3 7
Number of clef types 2 8
Maximum voices per staff 1 2
Maximum staves per page 12 32
Minimum note-value 16th 128th
Maximum number of rhythm dots 1 2
Maximum pages per score 20 200

 

PhotoScore Professional can read most musical markings, including:

 

Once the music has been read into PhotoScore, it can be transferred directly into the Sibelius software so you can:

  • Edit it further
  • Proof-read it (e.g. just by playing it!)
  • Transpose it
  • Re-arrange it
  • Save it
  • Play it back
  • Print it out
  • Extract parts

Order Online • Sibelius Page • Main PhotoScore Page • Download a Demo