Audiveris is a open source music scanner going all the way from the scanned music sheet input to the MusicXML output.



Input
Input image formats: All major formats: gif, png, tiff, bmp, etc.
Input PDF files: Yes
Direct scanner input: No (Lack of open-source twain interface)

Processing
Support for handwritten scores: No
Number of pages per score: One (Improvement is planned)
Number of staves per system: Any (And can vary between systems)
Number of lines per staff: 5
Support for tablatures: No
Number of voices per measure: Any
Customizable parameters: Yes For detailed tuning via user interface
Integrated learning: Yes To train on specific symbol shapes
User plugins: Yes To allow user extensions

Output
MusicXML file: Yes Using MusicXML version 2.0
Integrated playback: Yes At score level and at measure level
MIDI file: Yes

News


Roadmap


  • Implement the connection with Tesseract OCR for Mac OS.
  • Re-engineer the application on top of NetBeans Platform.
  • Use NetBeans Visual Library to implement a much better score display, providing the ability to move and resize individual items.
  • Integrate with a Visual Music Editor via MusicXML for manual correction, for printing, etc.