Regarding comparing a lite version of a product to a full production version of another product and drawing any conclusions, is not a reasonable test. All the great editing features won't make up for poor scans. It's a waste of time editing just to clean up scan/conversion mistakes. I first started looking for other options when my initial scans with PhotoScore lite required a lot of editing just to clean them up and make them exactly like the original sheet music. Which brings me to my primary criteria - accuracy. That said, the only thing I use it for is to edit the few mistakes that SmartScore makes when it converts a scanned script. I don't particularly like the SmartScore interface and some of the features seem buggy. My experience with SmartScore is similar to yours. The perfect solution is indeed Sibelius (not Finale for Photoscore), maybe you could go with Sibelius First.Įdit: I have just realized you can export virtually everything as xml, and then use the free Musescore for editing. I agree, Photoscore is limited for editing, you can always export as midi and edit in a good freeware like Musescore, but you will lose all the info that is in the page and is not on the midi files (chord symbols, text, etc.). Do I really need to use Finale or Sibelius for editing? I don't mind paying for Smartscore or Photoscore but I would like to avoid further expense just for editing the scores and ultimately converting them back to pdfs for my iPad. So my question is - is anyone happy with Smartscore for editing, or do you see bugs like I do. Personally, I find Photoscore editing interface more logical and like I said above it always seems to work.

I've downloaded both demos and from what I've seen Photoscore is doing a better job of recognizing and converting than Smartscore.īut #1, I want to edit the results (fix problems and ultimately make other changes) and Smartscore seems to have more editing features.īut #2, Smartscore seems really buggy and some rather simple editing functions either don't work at all or only work sometimes (can't figure out how that can be but the same keypresses are ignored sometimes and work other times).

I'm interested in Photoscore vs Smartscore.

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