Optical Score Recognition for Mac & Windows

Neuratron PhotoScore Professional 2

Neuratron PhotoScore Professional 2 is the advanced version of the PhotoScore Lite scanning program which is included with Sibelius.

Once the music is read, you can edit or transpose the score in Sibelius, play it back, extract parts and print - just as if you'd inputted it yourself.

PhotoScore Professional 2 features greatly improved text recognition, using special technology licensed from one of the world's leading OCR companies. Fingerings, chord symbols, bold and italic are all now detected. Rhythm detection is also improved - e.g. triplets are read even when there is no number 3 written.

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PhotoScore Professional 2 is the most advanced software package of its kind. Capable of reading thirty-two staves of music per page, two polyphonic voices per stave, as many as eight different types of clef, seven different kinds of accidentals, and articulation marks like staccato, tenuto, hairpins, and fermatas (pauses).

PhotoScore Professional 2 even reads text such as dynamics, which is included in your score for editing in Sibelius.

Feature comparison

Take a look at the advantages of PhotoScore Professional 2 over PhotoScore Lite:

	Lite	Pro
Reads articulation marks	no	yes
Reads slurs, etc.	no	yes
Reads hairpins	no	yes
Reads double & repeat barlines	no	yes
Reads text	no	yes
Reads triplets and tuplets	no	yes
Number of accidental types	3	7
Number of clef types	2	8
Maximum staves per page	12	32
Minimum note-value	16th	128th
Maximum number of rhythm dots	1	2
Maximum pages per score	20	200

System Requirements

Windows:

• Pentium or fast 486 (Pentium II or faster recommended),
• Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT4 or later,
• 32Mb+ RAM (64Mb recommended for scanning)
• CD-ROM drive, 40Mb+ free hard disk space
• Some features require printer, soundcard, MIDI keyboard, Internet access, scanner.

Mac:

• G4/G3/iMac, Mac OS 8.6 to 10.1 or later
• 15Mb+ free RAM (20Mb+ recommended, 32Mb+ for scanning)
• CD-ROM drive, 80Mb+ free hard disk space
• Some features require printer, MIDI keyboard, Internet access, TWAIN-compatible scanner
• Carbonized for Mac OS X; Mac OS X users must have version 10.1 or later.