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

[Beth Gustin, LPC]

Hi again, Traci,

Thank you so much for the tip on trying the ABC after a song title in Google. I was unaware of that so will try.

Thanks again,

Beth.
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> On Nov 9, 2025, at 9:59 AM, carcione--- via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Lime can play note by note, and say the note value, if that's helpful.
> 
> I play trad music, and quite a bit of that is in ABC format, which is screen reader accessible.  You could try picking a song you'd like to play and Googling the title ABC, and see if you get anything.
> Just some thoughts.
> Tracy
> 
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> Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software
> 
> Hi Fellow Musicians:
> I play guitar and would like to be able to read music for songs.
> have 0 eyesight so cant read  anything unless it is screen reader accessible, dont read braille.
> I am a retired programmer so familiar with music xml.
> I would like to be able to buy a song with the various parts, guitar, bass and vocals (multiple parts if harmonies).
> Then either use music xml or another methodology to make these parts readable using a screen reader or self voiced and, or, played musically with some narration.
> It is doable I know using musicxml, and now with the advent of AI should be very doable, but cant find anything accessible having been nor being developed for the totally blind community.
> I havent looked at the available projects in perhaps a decade or 2 so saw this posting and thought I'd ask the current state of such a venture.
> Again, I know it can be done but I just havent had the time to do it nor the finances to hire a contract programmer.
> I know there are more experienced audio engineers and programmers out there.
> Anyway, any insights into the state of current music accessibility?
> Rick USA
> 
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> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2025 4:16 PM
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> Cc: carcione at access.net <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software
> 
> 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
> To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
> 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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