MUSITEK SmartScore Songbook Edition (Windows/Macintosh)

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Summary: Musical Optical Character Recognition
Review: This is a very good software program for converting printed music into actual music as well as into usable computer midi files. If you are keyboard challenged and have a bunch of old sheet music lying around and want to know what it would sound like, just scan the music sheets into your computer and Smartscore can convert it into karaoke style music with you following the bouncing ball in just a few minutes. Of course there are many other musical uses as well as described in the included 266 page User Manual.
A similar product from Visiv in England called SharpEye, about the same price, does a little better in accurately scanning with less mistakes but it has far fewer features.