[MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software

[Beth Gustin, LPC]

Hi Traci,

What software do you use to convert to tiff files?

Thank you for the offer to send you a PDF file. I will do that this weekend if I can’t figure it out on my own first.
Seems like this should be durable. I’m just having user error issues and I know there’s a learning curve.

Thanks,

Beth.
Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 7, 2025, at 2:17 PM, carcione--- via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I use Goodfeel, and frequently only have a PDF for the music.  I bought another piece of software that creates .tif files.  
> The sequence is:  
> Open the PDF.
> Print it as a .tif file.  If it only contains 1 piece of music, you can print the whole thing.  If it contains several pieces, you need to print each page.
> Open the .tif file in Sharpeye, which comes with Goodfeel.  From Sharpeye, you can convert and save to musicxml very easily.
> 
> Usually it works well, though when I did it yesterday it skipped a bar.  But I was able to figure out what was missing by looking at the rest of the piece.
> 
> If you want, send me a piece and I'll run it through and send you the musicxml, and you can see how it looks.  And let me know if it's just one piece, or several.
> carcione at access.net.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Beth Gustin via MusicTlk
> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2025 3:51 PM
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> Cc: Beth Gustin <bethglpc at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am back with yet another question. I am demoing The Feel Good Suite of software, and the band members I play with use Ultimate Guitar when practicing. I noticed all the downloadable scores are in PDF. Is there a way to convert them to XML to use with Lime? Adobe says it does this, but when I tried it with sighted help, it just gave me text, not notation.
> 
> I have been looking at Musescore.com as this does have downloadable XML scores, but does not appear to have many of the songs we play.
> 
> Thoughts/suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Beth
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