Scanning

No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Allegro, with its included SmartScore^® Lite by Musitek^®. And Allegro now imports scanned SmartScore 3.0 files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols, and more! Also included:

• up to 32nd note resolution
• secondary voice recognition—counterpoint
• correct transposed instrument recognition
• multiple page scans
• correct page formatting including system and staff sizes

New — SmartScore Lite now recognizes grayscale images, simplifying the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format.

Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window.

Take a look for yourself.

Here's the original:

Scanned into Allegro: Only 5 easy edits needed.

Another notation product using PhotoScore Lite™: 30 difficult edits needed:

These examples were scanned from original engraved music (no photocopies), using a Canon N670U scanner at 360 dpi. The scan for Smart Score 3.0 was a line art (black and white) tiff file, and the scan for Photoscore Lite was a gray scale, the preferred file type for Photoscore. Both images were untouched to enhance results. The Photoscore example was transferred, without edits, to the most current version of a competitor's product. The time to correct errors in the two examples: Allegro, 10 seconds to add missing rests and tie necessary notes, hence the term 'easy edits' compared to the 2 minutes it took to add Voice 2 notes, correct notes, change notes from Voice 1 to 2 etc. in the competitor's product, thus the term 'difficult' or time-consuming edits.