SmartScore
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SmartScore is a music OCR and scorewriter program, written by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California. SmartScore runs on both Windows and Macintosh computers.
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[edit] History
SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows. The product line was changed to "SmartScore" and re-released for Windows in 1998, and for Mac in 1999 as a scanning/scoring hybrid product. SmartScore incorporates proprietary music recognition technology (OCR) researched and developed as a co-operative effort between Musitek Corporation of Ojai, California (Chris Newell, President) and ICT, Poland (Wladyslaw Homenda, PhD, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland).
[edit] Additional features
SmartScore allows users to scan printed sheet music into their computers, display the music notation on-screen in editable, digital form. The music can be played back, transposed, manipulated, reformatted and printed. Other functions include:
- Score creation from scratch or from templates (15 included)
- Score creation from imported MIDI files or from MIDI instrument performance
Like all other commercial music OCR software, SmartScore does not recognize hand-written scores.
SmartScore supports both Windows and Macintosh platforms (Win XP / Mac Intel and PowerPC) and produces output in several formats:
- .FIN (Finale interchange file format)
- .MusicXML
- .MID (MIDI file format)
- .NIF (NIFF Notation Interchange File Format)
[edit] Available editions
- Professional
- Songbook
- MIDI
- Piano
- Guitar
