Sheet music scanner · online · free

Scan sheet music right here.

Drop a PDF or a photo of printed music and pick a page. It comes back as clean printed sheet music you can play, and as MusicXML, MIDI and MP3. No sign-up.

Then open it anywhere

MusicXML opens in MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico. MIDI plays in any DAW, MP3 on any phone.

Lyrics and voices kept

Every part, the words under the notes, key and tempo. Play one voice alone, slower, as many times as you need.

Your scores stay yours

Files are deleted after about an hour and never used to train models.

How the scanner works

  1. Drop a PDF or a photo of printed sheet music above, or take a photo with your phone.
  2. Pick a page. It is read in about ten seconds.
  3. Play it right in the browser, choose a voice, change the key or slow it down, then download MP3, MIDI, MusicXML or a clean PDF.

What you get from one scan

  • Audio. Play the page in the browser, all voices or one, from 50% to 120% speed, and download it as MP3.
  • MIDI with one track per part, for a DAW or a practice app. More on sheet music to MIDI.
  • MusicXML to edit in MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale or Dorico. More on PDF to MusicXML.
  • A clean printed PDF, engraved again from the notes, with note names under the notes if you want them.
  • Another key for any of these, or a key that fits your voice. More on transposing sheet music.

Sheet music scanner app or online?

This page is the scanner online: nothing to install, it works on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and on a phone the camera button takes the photo for you. If you sing in a choir and want to learn your part every week, the ScanSing app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android keeps your scores, plays your line louder than the rest and shows where you sing off.

How accurate the music score scanner is

Printed, engraved scores read best. We measured ScanSing against PlayScore 2, Audiveris and other music scanners on the same printed scores; the comparison shows every score, the method and where ScanSing still makes mistakes.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Without an account you can read one page a day, any page of the file. Sign in with an email and you get 20 pages a month, no card. More pages are on the pricing page.

Which files can I scan?

PDF, JPEG, PNG, HEIC (iPhone photos), TIFF and WebP, up to 30 MB.

Can I hear the sheet music?

Yes. After a page is read it plays in the browser. Choose one voice, slow it down, or download the audio as MP3.

Does it keep lyrics?

Yes. The words under the notes stay with the notes, in MusicXML and on the printed PDF.

Can it read handwritten music?

No. It is built for printed, engraved scores. Clean PDFs, scans and flat photos read best.

Are my scores kept?

Files and results are deleted after about an hour and are never used to train models. See the Privacy Policy.

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