RE: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

[James Gilbert]

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

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Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

[Florence + Michael]

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



On 3 sept. 09, at 19:53, Ken Parsons wrote:

I'm thinking about purchasing the SmartScore Pro software for use  
with Finale, but wondered if there's a better program out there, or  
if SmartScore is the way to go.


Any suggestions welcome!

Ken

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Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

[Bill Thompson]

I own an older version of SmartScore, and for the most part I find it to 
be pretty effective. A friend of mine uses Visiv SharpEye, and I've been 
very impressed with how well it scans. So much so that it is on my wish 
list.


The differences between SmartScore and SharpEye, from my limited 
experience with SharpEye, are mostly speed - SharpEye is faster - and 
the ability to deal with less than perfect source material. Put another 
way, if you have a clean copy of a score both programs seem to read with 
about the same accuracy. If the score is smudged, bent, folded, 
spindled, or mutilated in any way then SharpEye tends to provide a more 
accurate scan.


SharpEye is available in a demo version, download it HERE 
.
SmartScore also has a demo, available HERE 
.


I hate to be so wishy-washy, but really, you're probably best served by 
trying both demos. But I will grow a backbone long enough to strongly 
urge you to demo SharpEye...


Bill

Ken Parsons wrote:

I'm thinking about purchasing the SmartScore Pro software for use with Finale, 
but wondered if there's a better program out there, or if SmartScore is the way 
to go.

Any suggestions welcome!

Ken



Ken Parsons

Technology Coordinator

School of Music

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, TN 37315

(4230 236-2886

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Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

[David W. Fenton]

On 3 Sep 2009 at 14:13, dhbailey wrote:

> when I did experiment, I 
> found that Sharpeye was the best software.  It's available 
> from www.recordare.com and it outperformed the other 
> scanning software I tried (that which came with Finale and 
> with Sibelius.)

I don't scan from scores but from PDFs, and I used both the 
Smartscore Lite that came with Finale and tried Sharpeye as well, 
Sharpeye was definitely better, but the UI is about 10 years out of 
date. Whether that matters or not is up to the end user to determine. 
It does make it rather difficult to figure out how to use, but partly 
that's because it has a lot more features that then version of 
Smartscore I tried (which was neither recent nor the full version).

I did find that importing from the PDFs was pretty successful and 
saved me a lot of time in preparing parts when all I had available 
was a PDF score. I can't speak to how the two programs compare when 
attempting to scan printed music.

-- 
David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates   http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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Re: [Finale] Scanning Software recommendations

[dhbailey]

Ken Parsons wrote:

I'm thinking about purchasing the SmartScore Pro software for use with Finale, 
but wondered if there's a better program out there, or if SmartScore is the way 
to go.



I will admit that I haven't done all that much scanning for 
work with Finale (or Sibelius) but when I did experiment, I 
found that Sharpeye was the best software.  It's available 
from www.recordare.com and it outperformed the other 
scanning software I tried (that which came with Finale and 
with Sibelius.)


I will also admit that it has been a few years since I 
experimented with it, and the scanning programs bundled with 
Finale and Sibelius may well have improved, but I just 
thought you should give Sharpeye a try.  There is a 
downloadable demo to experiment with.


--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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