iSeeNotes - sheet music OCR!

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I really wanted this app to work, but most of the music I play is from Realbooks, Fakebooks, etc... and on handwritten scores or imperfect copies of printed scores, it misses notes completely. I gave it the simplest scores I could find with basic whole, half, quarter, & with notes and minimal or no rests and it skipped almost had of the notes. The scores I picked were very legible single staffs with clearly visible notes and nothing tricky at all. (Just melodies and chord symbols, so all I expected to hear was the melody) If you stick to published sheet music with standard fonts, this may do the trick, but that's not what most of us use. I was hoping this could help me on pieces I have a hard time getting the exact rhythm on, but no dice. I'm hoping that future versions can handle legible handwritten scores and I'd gladly pay a higher price if it could.

I love the concept and I think It will be great in the future, but there are a few mistakes. First off, When I took a picture and it started playing, it COMPLETELY skipped all the whole notes. I don’t know if this is a glitch or not. So if your music mainly consists of whole notes, this app might not be right for you. Also, I think they should rotate the camera so the picture will be taken vertically, instead of horizontal. Next, I think that this app would be a lot more successful if they added more options, such as a treble/bass clef option, or maybe an option to switch instruments, so other than piano there would be brass, woodwind, string, percussion, and rhythm. Although there is a “pro” version of this I am considering purchasing, and maybe some, if not all, of these problems will be fixed. Other than that, this app was pretty helpful and it was able to read quarter, half, eighth and sixteenth notes. Thanks for reading.

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No matter how many times I take a photo it almost always says “no notes detected” when I quite obviously have music in front of me. Also if it did detect a note it takes the treble clef as a note, skipped over a bunch of notes, and once used the bar of an eighth note thinking it was a B. The one time I got it to read with many mistakes, I couldn’t capture all of my music and my music is currently only a half a sheet of paper. We were assigned to use this app in band to help us learn but everyone complains about how badly it works. It could be helpful but right now it makes too many mistakes for its purpose of function.

This app is useless for a serious musician; however, it does provide entertainment. I used it with my Messiah score and had some really interesting takes. I had a perfect version of “For Unto Us A Child Is Born” In one take; however in future takes of the same passage, I had issues. The app didn’t read the D major key signature for “Hallelujah,” so I heard a very interesting Dorian mode version of the famous chorus! The app is a lot of fun; but I wouldn’t buy the pro version! It is a lot of fun and would certainly be a conversation piece among musicians.

The fact that this app works at all is nothing short of miraculous. That said, it still has a way to go before it is useful for most sheet music. With most vocal arrangements, there are three staffs: the vocal line, and two staves of accompaniment. This app usually reads the vocal line first, then the accompaniment, then the next vocal line, then the accompaniment. If the app is not able to handle all three staves, there should be way to crop or blank out the unwanted material. Also, I got best results scanning only a half-page at a time.