PhotoScore Ultimate 6 is the fastest way to scan music for transpositions, arrangements & editions. It can scan music into other MIDI software such as sequencers. You can even use it on its own to scan in, play back, transpose and print scores, and even save audio files. PhotoScore Ultimate reads printed and handwritten music or PDFs in seconds – not just the notes, but also printed slurs, dynamics, lyrics, guitar tab, chord diagrams and more. You can then edit or transpose the music, play it back, extract the parts and print – just as if you'd input it yourself.

PhotoScore Ultimate 6 picks out virtually every detail and even recognizes 4 and 6 line guitar tablature, 1, 2 and 3 line percussion staves. It is the world's first and only commercial program available that is also designed to read handwritten scores.

Ease-of-use has been a central design aim right from the start, and with automatic scanning and recognition, plus licensed Sibelius-style editing interfaces, PhotoScore Ultimate 6 even becomes fun and exciting to use!

PhotoScore Ultimate 6 can read most printed musical markings, including:

• 5-line staves (normal and small), 4- and 6- line guitar staves, 1-, 2- and 3-line percussion staves
• Notes (including appoggiaturas, cue-sized and cross-staff notes), chords (including stem direction, beams & flags) and rests (including multirests) in up to 4 voices per staff
• Accidentals and articulation marks
• Clefs, key signatures, time signatures
• Tuplets/triplets
• The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end
• Slurs, ties and hairpins
• Text including lyrics, dynamics, fingerings, instrument names, tempo and technique markings
• Guitar chord diagrams
• Various other markings such as codas, segnos, ornaments, pedal markings and repeat endings
• 64 staves per page
• 400 pages per score

It can read the following handwritten markings:

• Notes & chords (including stem direction, beams & flags)
• Rests, augmentation dots (single and double)
• Sharps, flats and naturals
• Key signatures
• Slurs and ties
• Barlines, 5-line staves, systems of staves
• The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end
• Time signatures (calculated from the music - not specifically read)
• Tuplets (calculated from the music - not specifically read)