SharpEye

SharpEye can easily create digital copies of your printed sheet music, which you can load into any music notation or MIDI sequencing application. The operation is suggestively called 'music OCR' and is practically the conversion of scanned sheets into music notation or MIDI files.

SharpEye accepts TIFF or bitmap images as input, also allowing direct connection to a TWAIN-compatible scanner for image acquiring. Using the music OCR techonolgy, it is capable of generating MIDI, NIFF or MusicXML files, which can be used with most notation software. Moreover, it can recognize lyrics in various languages, such as English, Albanian, French, German and many more.

Converting your paper-based sheets to digital scores saves you time needed to re-write the notes all over again, allowing editing in a virtual environment and fast printing. The goal is to allow musicians to focus on the creation process, rather than wasting time and paper to re-write their songs.

SharpEye comes with options for rotating scanned images and removing areas that are not of interest. To ease your work even more, it features batch operation support, which means that it can process multiple image files in one go, optionally merging the resulting files.

The application is not limited to scanning stave images and turning them into notation files. Its functionality includes options for recalculating triplets, copying key signatures, splitting two-note chords and identifying rhythm errors.

SharpEye is a great tool for all music composers and singers, allowing them to quickly scan printed music sheets and obtain digital copies that can be then edited with ease. With its powerful music and text recognition engine and the rhythm analysis capabilities, this application is worth having in the toolbox of any composer.