capella-scan 8.0

capella-scan transforms sheet music quickly into a ringing score that is ready for editing and printing. capella-scan uses the FineReader engine from ABBYY to recognize text. There is a feature list: Number of recognized staves per system: unlimited Uses mathematical morphology technology for lightning-fast and precise recognition of notes, accidentals, keys, bar lines, slurs, ties, repeat boxes, crescendo signs, dynamics, articulation signs etc. Directly scans your scores Graphic import: BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF PDF and PostScript import: Recognizes multi-page PDF scores Supports digital camera images: Just take a snapshot of your score and have capella-scan turn it into a Midi or capella file Recognizes small and large notes (cue notes, grace notes, normal notes), as well as small and large staves (piano score) Plots recognized notes directly onto the sheet music Recognizes text (also Gothic print): Lyrics, title, headers, footers, musical symbols (f, p), crescendo etc. Over 100 dictionaries from Azerbaijanian to Zulu Recognizes information specially for capella's score layout Integrated player: plays back the recognition status - meaning you hear immediately when something is not as is should be Offers intelligent and intuitive help for the error correction process Manages poor score quality ("holey" staffs) Excellent voice management system even for very complex sheet music Midi export: capella-scan can be used in conjunction with all Midi-compatible music programs CapXML export: This format offers a universal XML-interface for third party programs MusicXML export: Notation editors like Finale®, Sibelius® and others can read this international standard file format almost perfectly, including the complete score layout Infinitely variable zoom function for lightning-fast navigation Ability to attach scanned sheets to existing capella score: creating larger scores Scans oversize scores and automatically connects page sections, even with disconnected systems Handles two column scores (song book pages) Enables clear stave line allocation; also from varying systems Works with all common scanners (TWAIN 1 and 2) and reads notes in these formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif, wmf PDF manual (about 100 pages) available as download