Audiveris

How does being able to easily transform images of music scores and turn them into virtual versions of themselves? Well, it can be done and that is thanks to Audiveris, an application that specializes in a very specific type of OCR, or optical character recognition, the musical type.

The program works quite well and although the interface is not as well-defined, it is a working and fully functional one that will yield results.

How does it work? Well, firstly, the user must import the files at hand which contains the musical scores and notes. The application can then get to work by using one of three visualization protocols. It will work with Logical, Physical, or Combined modes, each being more efficient in specific scenarios.

Dumping voices and chords from an output file is possible and will further help you on your quest for musical perfection.

When entering the advanced options area, you will discover that a series of extra adjustments can be made that deal with annotations, samples, plots, a debugging of the action itself, and even specific items, notes, and window layouts. The whole thing here is to customize the functionality of the app to your needs and ultimately be able to extract the absolute best from the application and its functions.

I must say that although the interface is quite friendly, users will still need to have an idea about music and also computers to easily dump elements or import image files, which by the way can be popular image formats such as PNG JPG, BMP, and even PDFs.

Audiveris manages to live up to its name, allowing users to bring the real sound back to their existence via their imported scans or music score photos. The rest of the magic is up to you.