[Dixielandjazz] Photoscore

[David Richoux]

I have tried using the Musitek "SmartScore Lite" that came with  
Finale - I got it do work pretty well once in about 15 attempts. If  
you have a program like Photoshop to quickly convert a scanned image  
to pure bitmap black and white - no greyscale - it works a bit  
better. It has a real problem with converting piano scores, takes the  
treble and bass clef lines and forces them into something really weird!

With these results I am not sure I would buy the upgrade to full  
SmartScore - seems like a real gamble.

Dave Richoux


On Apr 23, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Talegatorz at aol.com wrote:

> Hello Larry,
>
> Although I don't have this program myself, my trombone player, Todd  
> does and
> I can share some of our experiences with it.
> I had acquired some old march and concert music for our town band  
> which was
> missing some bassoon, bass clarinet and tenor parts. I asked Todd  
> if he could
> scan some related parts into Sibelius and make the needed parts.  
> (For example,
> T-bone to tenor or bass to bassoon and bass clarinet.) The main  
> problem was
> that the charts were quite old and somewhat faded. This caused  
> Photoscore to
> read some of the notes incorrectly. Thus, it was garbage in and  
> garbage out.
> The basic process was relatively easy, but the obviously needed  
> corrections
> took forever to ferret out and I'm sure we will find more as we  
> work on these
> pieces with the whole band.
> However, if your originals are fresh and clearly printed, you  
> shouldn't have
> any real problems with this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gus Bloch
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