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I use PrintMusic 2011 with the smart score guitar pro version, and it rocks! Very much worth the extra $100 dollars. HD display, Intel Centrino2 Duo CPU P7350 2.00GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, Realtek High Definition Audio, 4GB RAM, Vista HP (32-bit), Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro, M-Audio 49+25 Keystations Unless you need to do this a lot, $199 for the registered version seems a bit steep. PDF file I had (14 pages) which, with a little patience, was easily accomplished by importing single saved XML pages and then combining them with the merge score feature The trial version is free, you can only do one page at a time except for text boxes (and apparently some graphic items such as sytem dividers), which will not be recreatedīut all the musical content was very well converted If your PDF file was created from a music notation program, then you can use PDFtoMusic Pro to convert the PDF files into MusicXML format, which Finale can read. Roland ED PC-180a MIDI keyboard controller Yes, of course SHARP EYE can read musical text from TIFF file format most accurately and have best possibilities for musical text editing. I am delighted and recommend 'Sharp Eye' with the Dolet reader. This has been my best result so far.I was able to re-install it and fit the 'Keys' within the last few days after I changed computers, and its all working again. Editing is easy once you get used to it and only yesterday, I scanned in a shortish four part bass clef score and only had 1 mistake or, extra note. There are limitations, but it is infinately better than the Smart Score Light which came with Finale. I have been using 'Sharp Eye', with the Dolet reader, for a few months now with a large degree of success. It's available for a 30-day free trial at: If you're on Windows, you might try using a different scanning program like SharpEye Music Reader. If you try this and it works for you, please tell me what you're doing, because I'd really like to learn how to scan into Finale properly. I must say, I just tried this with several resolutions, all in 1 bit B&W, and the result is about the same as for the other images I've tried scanning into Finale with SmartscoreLite:crap. I just felt it important to not forget this point as sometimes knowing of a possibility can allow for a different approach. PDF is simply a container of various formats (e.g., gif, tiff, jpeg, eps), and although it is likely that what the poster has is a pdf containing a rasterized image which is appropriately handled as described above, the possibility that the music is natively represented as postscript within PDF should not dismissed. Alhtough I have not tried it, if the format of the music within PDF is in postscript rather than a rasterized image, then it may be possible to bypass the image scanning/OCR as suggested previously.
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