PhotoScore is rather conservative in informing you of what it thinks are possible read errors. A page page is ready in less than a minute. Once scanning begins, there is a series of helpful, informative feedback messages alerting you to the stage in scanning and conversion that PhotoScore has reached. You should certainly scan at a low resolution 200-300 dpi is best. In fact a simpler, monochrome scanner might actually – with its rudimentary range of settings – outperform a photo-scanner you certainly do not need the latter. What’s more, literally no setup was needed during this evaluation to enable PhotoScore Ultimate to connect with the hardware used (a rather older Canon 8400 flatbed).

PhotoScore Ultimate 6 dealt almost impeccably with everything thrown at it for this evaluation, from a set of pages from a pristine score by a contemporary composer (George Benjamin) who had actually used Sibelius to write his music in the first place to dog-eared pocket scores from the nineteenth century! And it does so exceptionally well.Īlthough the interface is a little un-Mac like in places, Neuratron can be forgiven for that since the process of scanning in a huge variety of printed scores and rendering them very accurately (with 100% accuracy in some cases under test) in digital form works very well indeed. It converts paper scores into score files for importing into Sibelius (or, for that matter) otherwise working on and with. PhotoScore Ultimate 6 is the exact opposite. Indeed, it can still be a huge disappointmentâ€¦ misreads, smudges converted to apparently valid objects, objects missed, layouts garbled. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has had a mixed past. But the Ultimate version is even more impressive. It’s a great taster of what this truly amazing product can do. But the resources to which most users will want to turn have musch to recommend them as well.

The main review examines this latest version, its strengths and what makes it so successful. Sibelius 6 is far and away best-of-breed as the gold standard of music notation software.

Using photoscore lite with sibelius 8