Photoscore Ultimate

Advanced music scanning

PhotoScore Ultimate 5 is the fastest way to scan music for transpositions, arrangements & editions.

It's the fully-featured version of the PhotoScore Lite scanning software for Sibelius and G7. Plus it can scan music into other MIDI software such as sequencers. You can even use it on its own to scan in, play back, transpose and print scores, and even save audio files.

PhotoScore Ultimate reads printed and handwritten music in seconds – not just the notes, but also printed slurs, dynamics, lyrics, guitar tab, chord diagrams and more. You can then edit or transpose the music, play it back, extract the parts and print – just as if you'd input it yourself.

PhotoScore Ultimate 5 is importantly the world's first commercial software designed to read handwritten music. It is currently optimized to allow composers to create scores by hand away from computers, say by a favorite instrument or lying in a field!

New in PhotoScore Ultimate 5 : handwritten score recognition • dual-engine printed music recognition • edit while PhotoScore reads in background • advanced scanned image management • now recognises repeat endings, Coda and Segno, cross-staff notes and beams, ornaments (including trills, mordants, turns) and pedal on/off markings • Universal Binary application • text recognition in up to 120 different languages

Feature comparison

Take a look at the advantages of PhotoScore Ultimate 5 over PhotoScore Lite:

	PhotoScore Lite	Ultimate
Automatic scanning and reading after scanning	no	yes
Transposing and printing	no	yes
Handwritten music recognition	no	yes *
Reads slurs & ties	no	yes
Reads hairpins	no	yes
Reads text (including bold, italic, etc.)	no	yes
Reads articulation marks	no	yes
Reads triplets and other tuplets	no	yes
Reads grace notes and cue notes	no	yes
Reads cross-staff notes and beams	no	yes *
Reads guitar chord diagrams	no	yes
Reads 4- and 6-string guitar tab	no	yes
Reads 1-, 2- and 3- line percussion staves	no	yes
Reads double & repeat barlines	no	yes
Reads repeat endings, Coda and Segno	no	yes *
Reads ornament and pedal markings	no	yes *
Accidental types	3	7
Clef types	2	8
Shortest note value	16th note	128th note
Rhythm dots	1	2
Maximum voices per staff	2	4
Maximum staves per page	12	64
Maximum pages per score	20	400
Maximum dots per note/rest	1	3
Reads the length of irregular bars	no	yes
Transposes in PhotoScore itself	no	yes
Plays back in PhotoScore itself	no	yes
Opens PDF files	no	yes
Saves MusicXML and NIFF files	no	yes
Saves WAV/AIFF audio files	no	yes

* NEW in PhotoScore Ultimate 5, plus many other improvements

System requirements