[MusicTlk] Getting music from PDF

[Catherine Samuel]

Thanks Ella! Yes the playback part is pretty important to me. So I'll stick with PlayScore for now and see how it goes.
Catherine

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Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Getting music from PDF

Hi, Scanned PDFs are never going to turn out particularly well regardless of program. I think SharpEye and PlayScore 2 are about the same in quality.
I don't use PlayScore often enough to have a continuous subscription so I just buy monthly subscriptions and cancel right away. A yearly subscription is also an option if you use it all the time, though it's kinda expensive.
And yes, I believe you can get SharpEye separately, though if you care about playback in the program PlayScore may be easier to use.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM Catherine Samuel via MusicTlk < musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Tracy,
> Gosh I didn't know you were on this list or that you were a musician! 
> How did I miss that when we were in Seeing Eye class together way back when?
> Anyway, I haven't used SharpEye in a while. When I did several years 
> ago, I tried it with a scanned PDF, and the results were poor. But I 
> just tried that same scanned PDF with PlayScore2, and the results were almost as poor.
> So not SharpEye's fault. I'd be curious to hear about its features.
> PlayScore2 is pretty economical month to month, but SharpEye might be 
> better if it's not an annoying subscription model like PlayScore is. Thanks.
> Catherine (Getchell) Samuel
>
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> Some people here say that they lose a significant number of notes when 
> trying to get music from a PDF.  I don't find this with Sharpeye.  I 
> lose all fingering indications, but I seldom lose notes.  But that's 
> from real PDFs, not PDFs created from a scan.  I don't know how the 
> real PDFs are created-maybe with Finale or some other music program.  
> All I know is that, if I have a PDF that Jaws can read without using 
> OCR, Sharpeye can deal with it.
>
> Tracy
>
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