I don’t use OMR software much these days, as the kind of thing I find it useful for is often the kind of thing where it is still just easier to notate music out manually.
That isn’t to say that music scanning software hasn’t improved in the past few years. I really enjoyed this post and podcast episode from Scoring Notes covering some of the notable movement in this space since 2021.
Scanning the current OMR landscape – Scoring Notes:
Optical music recognition (OMR) software — or “music scanning software” as it is more casually known — has a wide audience, appealing to hobbyists, professionals and everything in between. Like every other corner of the music notation software universe, there seem to be endless opinions about the best available options, dependent upon personal preferences and use cases.
Moreover, since we last visited this topic in early 2021, the technology and the products have significantly changed. Four years can seem like a lifetime or more in this area! No doubt, these products will continue to evolve, and others will come and go . So, while this article is a review of some of the most widely used options, it is not intended to rate what the “best” OMR product on the market is — only to report on how the different products performed on a specific set of tests, what to expect as a user, and observations about the experience and results.
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