

It converts paper scores into score files for importing into Sibelius (or, for that matter) otherwise working on and with. PhotoScore Ultimate 6 is the exact opposite. Indeed, it can still be a huge disappointment… misreads, smudges converted to apparently valid objects, objects missed, layouts garbled.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has had a mixed past. But the Ultimate version is even more impressive.

It’s a great taster of what this truly amazing product can do. But the resources to which most users will want to turn have musch to recommend them as well. The main review examines this latest version, its strengths and what makes it so successful. Sibelius 6 is far and away best-of-breed as the gold standard of music notation software.
