SmartScore
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SmartScore is a music OCR
and scorewriter
program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California, (Chris Newell, President). As of March 2010, there are over 35,000 registered users of Musitek software worldwide.
in 1998, and for Mac Power PCs in 1999 as a scanning/scoring hybrid product. SmartScore incorporates proprietary music recognition technology (OCR)
researched and developed by Musitek Corporation of Ojai, California and its engineering staff in Warsaw
, Poland
. SmartScore currently runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista
& Windows XP
PC platforms as well as the Mac OS X
operating system.
SmartScore allows users to scan printed sheet music into their computers, display the music notation on-screen in editable, digital form. Music can played back, transposed, manipulated, reformatted and reprinted. Other functions include:
Although not designed for hand-written music, SmartScore recognizes certain "Jazz fonts" which emulate hand-written notes .
SmartScore outputs to several non-native formats including:
Music OCR
Music OCR is the application of optical character recognition to interpret sheet music or printed scores into editable and, often, playable form. Once captured digitally, the music can be saved in commonly used file formats, e.g...
and scorewriter
Scorewriter
A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used for creating sheet music.A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.-Comparison with multitrack sequencer software:...
program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California, (Chris Newell, President). As of March 2010, there are over 35,000 registered users of Musitek software worldwide.
History
SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows. The product line was changed to "SmartScore" and re-released for Windows 98Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
in 1998, and for Mac Power PCs in 1999 as a scanning/scoring hybrid product. SmartScore incorporates proprietary music recognition technology (OCR)
Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
researched and developed by Musitek Corporation of Ojai, California and its engineering staff in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. SmartScore currently runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
& Windows XP
Windows XP
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...
PC platforms as well as the Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
operating system.
Additional features
- Recognition of music saved in PDF file format
- Recognition of music written in TAB (tablature) and percussion formats
- Score creation from scratch or from templates (15 included)
- Score creation from imported MIDI files or from MIDI instrument performance
Although not designed for hand-written music, SmartScore recognizes certain "Jazz fonts" which emulate hand-written notes .
SmartScore outputs to several non-native formats including:
- .PDFPortable Document FormatPortable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
- .MusicXMLMusicXMLMusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format.It was developed by Recordare LLC, deriving several key concepts from existing academic formats . It is designed for the interchange of scores, particularly between different scorewriters.Version 1.0 was released in January 2004...
- .MID (MIDI file format)