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1. Inputting ADVANCED FEATURES below), but we don’t suggest you try anything like this until you are proficient with PhotoScore Lite.
2. READING As mentioned earlier, just scanning a page simply presents the computer with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which as far as it’s concerned could be anything from text to a photograph. “Reading” the music is the clever bit, where PhotoScore Lite works out from the scan where and what the notes and other markings on the page are.
Pages Pane On the left-hand side of the PhotoScore Lite window you should see the pages pane, as shown here. If you can’t see this, choose View Toggle Pages Pane. Pages that have not yet been read appear in the upper half of the pages pane, under the heading Pending Pages. Notice how PhotoScore Lite helpfully shows you a thumbnail of the scanned page as you hover your mouse pointer over its name. When you want to read a page you have scanned, click the little checkbox at the right-hand side, which expands to say Read when you hover your mouse pointer over it. PhotoScore Lite will start to think, and the blue bar behind the name of the page will turn green as PhotoScore reads the page. If you accidentally scanned the pages in the wrong order, you can correct the order in the list of Pending Pages simply by clicking and dragging the pages into the correct order. If you just scanned in some pages or opened a PDF, however, your pages have probably already been read by PhotoScore Lite, and so will be found in the lower half of the pages pane, under the heading Read Pages. The pages are automatically grouped into scores; you can show and hide the individual pages in each score by clicking the + or – button at the left-hand side. To view a page in order to edit it, click on its name under Read Pages.
What PhotoScore Lite reads PhotoScore Lite reads the following musical markings: Notes & chords (including tail direction, beams & flags), rests Flats, sharps and naturals Treble and bass clefs, key signatures, time signatures 5-line staves (normal and small), standard barlines, 6-line guitar tab The format of the page, including the page size, staff-size, margins, and where systems end.
PhotoScore Ultimate, available separately, also reads text (including lyrics, dynamics, instrument names, fingering, etc.), a wider variety of clefs and accidentals, tuplets, guitar chord diagrams, and 32