SharpEye for Windows

By DGSoft
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Developer’s Description

Scan and convert printed sheet music into music notation file or MIDI file.

Scan music with our highly acclaimed music scanning software SharpEye. You can use SharpEye to scan and convert printed sheet music into a music notation file or a MIDI file which can then be imported into a music notation program or MIDI sequencer. This process is called music OCR by analogy with the more common text OCR. SharpEye 2 outputs MIDI, NIFF and MusicXML files which can be opened by various music notation and sequencing programs including MagicScore, Finale, Sibelius and Cubase.

SharpEye for Windows

By DGSoft
Trial version
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GENERAL

Release: September 6, 2010

Latest update: September 7, 2010

Version: 2.68.01

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows 10
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 98

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 4,315

Downloads Last Week: 1

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5/5

3 User Votes

So simple, great OCR
gadfly1975November 2, 2013
Pros
I needed to practice a tune for our church choir and wanted to practice with a simple MIDI file. This was the easiest way to convert vocal sheet music.
Cons
None that I'm aware of besides the cost. Worth every penny, though.
Summary
The bees knees of music OCR software - beautiful.
Jon McNamaraNovember 20, 2011
Pros
Using Sharpeye I can take a sheet of music have it scanned, read and transferred into a music program (I use Mozart) and playing through the computers speakers in under five minutes - brilliant. Personally I haven't found a better piece of kit to OCR music (and I've looked) - maybe a bit pricy - but it actually does what it says on the packet! I will admit if your source music is old, faded, handwritten and damaged then even Sharpeye won't help too much - but in general, using a standard scanner or a .tiff file (converted from a pdf file) and you're in business. As a front end for a program like Mozart, Harmony Assistant and probably noteworthy - Sharpeye reduces working time from hours to minutes and improves accuracy to inhuman levels. Do I like this software - if you haven't guessed - the answer's YES - would I recommend it - YES. Sharpeye is one of Software's safest secrets - but for a musician it's better than a warm tankard of Whiskey on a winters night!
Cons
It cannot read rubbish input material - but then, more often than not - I can't either. While it is easy to learn to use I would have liked some form of Manual - not to do what I can do - but to make sure I haven't missed any tricks of usage. The playback functions of the program are not wonderful BUT the transfer to Mozart (for instance) is easy and very quick. And the biggest con of all is that I just can't do without it!
Summary
In summary - a super, simple piece of kit to OCR music accurately with - even if you don't want to use it buy it and try it - I'm sure you'll be impressed enough to start learning music on any instrument you can find or afford.
Small and lightweight, easy interface
dan3847November 19, 2010
Pros
This program worked great for me. I especially like the batch-convert feature.
Cons
None that I'm aware of.
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