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More than 16 years experience in recognition technologies have enabled us to design and create the formidable OmniScore dual-engine recognition system, incredibly making PhotoScore Ultimate 6 over 99.5% accurate on most originals!

PhotoScore Ultimate 6 picks out virtually every detail and even recognizes 4 and 6 line guitar tablature, 1, 2 and 3 line percussion staves. It is the world's first and only commercial program available that is also designed to read handwritten scores.

Ease-of-use has been a central design aim right from the start, and with automatic scanning and recognition, plus licensed Sibelius-style editing interfaces, PhotoScore Ultimate 6 even becomes fun and exciting to use!

To make your choice simple, we offer two distinct versions: PhotoScore Ultimate 6, our flagship product, boasts the latest technology and includes a complete set of features. PhotoScore MIDI Lite 5 is priced very low and is recommended for those with minimal music scanning requirements.

PhotoScore Version
Comparison Chart

PhotoScore Ultimate 6

PhotoScore MIDI Lite 5

OmniScore dual-engine recognition system (a powerful hybrid of an updated PhotoScore OmniScore engine and the highly acclaimed Liszt music scanning engine as used in SharpEye 2, giving many times the accuracy of either engine used independently!)

yes

yes

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Available for both Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

yes

yes

Opens PDF files

yes

yes

Plays back

yes

yes

Saves MIDI files

yes

yes

Sends scores directly to Sibelius and G7

yes

no

Saves MusicXML, NIFF and PhotoScore files for opening in Finale and other notation programs

yes

no*

Saves WAV/AIFF audio files (also for burning to CD)

yes

no

Handwritten music recognition for note entry away from computer

yes

no

Reads slurs and ties

yes

ties only

Reads hairpins and dynamics

yes

no

Reads text (lyrics, title etc) in 120 different languages (including bold, italic, etc.)

yes

no

Reads articulation marks

yes

no

Reads triplets and other tuplets

yes

no

Reads grace notes and cue notes

yes

no

Reads cross-staff notes and beams

yes

no

Reads guitar chord diagrams

yes

no

Reads 4- and 6-string guitar tab

yes

6-line only

Reads 1-, 2- and 3- line percussion staves

yes

no

Reads double and repeat barlines

yes

no

Reads repeat endings, Coda and Segno

yes

no

Reads ornaments and pedal markings

yes

no

Accidental types

7

3

Clef types

8

2

Shortest note value

(128th)

(16th)

Maximum voices per staff

4

2

Maximum staves per page

64

12

Maximum pages per score

400

20

Maximum dots per note/rest

3

1

Reads the length of irregular bars

yes

no

Transposes

yes

no

Prints scores

yes

no

Automatic scanning and reading after scanning (removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings)

yes

no

Playback with astonishing realism using Espressivo™ feature licensed from Sibelius

yes

no

* Note that PhotoScore MIDI Lite can save MIDI files only, and that these cannot be opened in PhotoScore for later editing. If you require this feature then PhotoScore Ultimate, which can save files in its native PhotoScore format, is recommended.

Espressivo is a trademark of Sibelius Software Limited.

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