Scanning

No other entry-level notation program offers scanning as accurate as PrintMusic, with its included SmartScore® Lite by Musitek®.

NEW in PrintMusic 2008

• Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
• Easier Scanning - Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within PrintMusic. With a compatible scanner, PrintMusic 2008 provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. * All you have to do is click "Final Scan".
• Improved recognition of multi-measure rests, grace notes, and repeat measures (slash & dot symbol).
• Improved recognition when scanning scores with optimized staves.

PrintMusic’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:

• Secondary voice recognition - counterpoint
• Correct transposed instrument recognition
• Multiple page scans
• Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
• Up to 32nd note resolution
• PrintMusic's SmartScore® Lite scanning utility has been updated to run natively on Intel-based Macs.**
• Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format

Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window. What's more, Windows and Mac users can now scan directly from PrintMusic, and PrintMusic determines the ideal resolution and color depth.

PrintMusic now imports scanned SmartScore 5.3 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the Music XML files it creates can be read by PrintMusic on Macintosh and Windows computers)

Take a look for yourself.

Here's the original:

Scanned into PrintMusic: Only 5 easy edits needed.

Another notation product using PhotoScore Lite™: 30 difficult edits needed:

These examples were scanned from original engraved music (no photocopies), using a Canon N670U scanner at 360 dpi. The scan for Smart Score 3.0 was a line art (black and white) tiff file, and the scan for Photoscore Lite was a gray scale, the preferred file type for Photoscore. Both images were untouched to enhance results. The Photoscore example was transferred, without edits, to the most current version of a competitor's product. The time to correct errors in the two examples: PrintMusic, 10 seconds to add missing rests and tie necessary notes, hence the term 'easy edits' compared to the 2 minutes it took to add Voice 2 notes, correct notes, change notes from Voice 1 to 2 etc. in the competitor's product, thus the term 'difficult' or time-consuming edits.

* Scanning directly from SmartScore Lite within PrintMusic is supported by nearly all Windows scanners and Epson scanners on Macintosh.

** Mac-Intel Users – PrintMusic 2008 has a universal binary version of SmartScore Lite Scanning. If you are using PrintMusic 2007, download the PrintMusic 2007a maintenance update to use SmartScore Lite Scanning on your Intel- based Macintosh.