Music Scanning Solution
PhotoScore is the music scanning solution from Neuratron including I.R.I.S. OCR technologies.The musical equivalent of a text OCR program, PhotoScore incorporates the powerful OCR kernel that drives Readiris Pro.
What Does PhotoScore do?
• Scans and reads printed music
• Plays back scanned music with astonishing realism using the Espressivo feature
• Results can be used in MIDI sequencing and editing software
• Uses the latest technology available
• Reads a wide range of musical markings
• Is fast and accurate
PhotoScore can read most musical markings, including:
• Notes & chords (including tail direction, beams & flags), rests
• Accidentals, articulation marks
• Tuplets/triplets (v2 only)
• Clefs, key signatures, time signatures
• 5-line staves (normal and small), barlines
• The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end
• Slurs, ties and hairpins
• Text including lyrics, dynamics, guitar chords (v2 only), fingerings (v2 only), instrument names, tempo and technique markings
What do people use PhotoScore for?
• Accompaniment and guidance when practicing instruments
• Creating MIDI files to put on web pages for others to hear
• Scanning music for use in sequencers or other editing programs; for re-arranging, transposing (e.g. to bring a vocal part into range), extracting parts and printing
• Just for fun! With PhotoScore you can scan in your favorite song, have it played back to you, change the instruments and so on use your imagination!
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Version 6.0 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Oct 6, 2009 |
# Next generation handwritten music recognition
* Now works with a wide range of existing styles
* Includes an innovative handwritten style editor with graphical feedback allowing PhotoScore Ultimate to recognize even more styles
* Much higher accuracy
# Increased printed music recognition accuracy
* Recognition of multi-bar rests
* Improved tuplet recognition - now picks up duplets in compound time
# Powerful rescoring features
* Part and voice extraction
* Page reformatting
* Instrument reordering
* Automatic note rewriting for a new clef (handy when changing the instrument)
# Essential editing tools
* Bad timing navigator window - an indispensible tool that lists all timing errors and allows quick and easy navigation to them
* Find and replace feature for correcting repeating problems in a score - e.g. a certain syllable in lyrics, removing unneeded text or for changing the text type
# Flexible text editing
* Easily swap between staff and page types
* Drag to reattach to different staves
* Set formatting such as bold, underlining and italic
* Easy entry and support for metronome marks in beats other than quarter notes
# Improved playback features
* In-window buttons offering quick and easy control
* Pause feature
* Ignore repeats and multirests option for when checking for mistakes
* Always play whole system option
# Versatile MIDI file saving
* A track can now be created for each voice in a staff
* Saves MIDI files containing any number of tracks so that a user may manually associate them with channels in a sequencer program
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Version 5.1.0 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Sep 12, 2007 |
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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Version 4.1.1 |
MacOS X PPC |
(App) |
Nov 10, 2005 |
Improved voice timing handling
Improved alto clef recognition
Improved key signature recognition
Improved barline recognition
Various other recognition improvements
Guitar chord symbols within systems now recognised
Fixed bug where some staff relative text was lost
Open and save folders now remembered from previous session
Fixed problem on Mac where PhotoScore could not always find the scan produced by the PhotoScore Scan application