PhotoScore Ultimate, incorporating OmniScore2 technology, is fast and highly accurate music scanning and recognition software - the musical equivalent of a text OCR program.

Also capable of reading handwritten scores and converting PDF files to music files, it is easy-to-use, transposes, plays-back, prints out, and exports scanned scores in a number of formats.

PhotoScore Ultimate is the only program of it's kind that can offer 4 and 6 line guitar tabulature recognition. PhotoScore Ultimate reads a wide range of styles including percussion and 4 and 6 line guitar tablature.

Here are some key features of "PhotoScore Ultimate":

· Scans and reads printed music - even percussion staves, guitar tablature and chord diagrams!
· Highly accurate and quick
· Automatic scanning and recognition - removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings
· Transposes all scanned notation
· Plays back scanned music with astonishing realism using the Espressivo feature licensed from Sibelius
· Prints scores in high quality
· Results can be used in almost any music editing program. Send directly to Sibelius or G7, or save MusicXML and NIFF files for Finale and other notation products. Save MIDI files for MIDI sequencing programs such as Cubase and Sonar. Save WAV or AIFF files for burning to CD.
· Opens PDF files
· Reads text from score in up to 40 different languages. Windows version can even read Greek and Russian.
· Uses the most advanced music scanning technology available.

Requirements:

· Apple Macintosh Intel/G4/G5
· At least 256MB RAM and 512MB is recommended. If your computer has less than 256MB RAM, contact your supplier for a memory upgrade.
· A reasonable amount of free hard disk space - at least 40MB and preferably rather more.
· Apple Preview or Adobe Reader 6.0 or later should be installed to view PhotoScore’s PDF help.
· Sibelius/G7 users note: Although PhotoScore will work with Sibelius/G7 version 3 and higher, It is recommended that you use Sibelius/G7 5.0 or higher as it has greatly improved PhotoScore importing capabilities.
· A scanner (probably connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed Mac OS X TWAIN driver software (it is highly recommended you visit your scanner manufacturer’s website and download the latest version – also note that clas

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Next generation handwritten music recognition.
· Increased printed music recognition accuracy.
· Powerful rescoring features.
· Essential editing tools.
· Flexible text editing.
· Improved playback features.
· Versatile MIDI file saving.
· Many more enhancements.