Audiveris
Audiveris is an open-source optical music recognition app that converts scanned sheet music and PDFs into editable music notation data.
What is Audiveris?
Audiveris is an open-source optical music recognition application published by Audiveris for converting scanned sheet music and PDF scores into structured digital notation. Its core purpose is to analyze score images, recognize musical symbols, and export the result to MusicXML for use in notation software and related music workflows. The project also uses its own .omr project format to store recognition data while a score is being processed and reviewed. Audiveris includes an editor focused on correcting recognition results rather than serving as a full composition program. Documentation for the project describes OCR-assisted text handling in the recognition pipeline and user tools for inspecting and adjusting detected notation. Mac users typically encounter it as a specialized desktop utility for digitizing legacy scores, preparing material for further editing, or converting printed music into formats that other notation tools can open.
Key features
- Converts sheet music images and PDFs into structured notation data
- Exports recognized scores to MusicXML for use in notation software
- Stores recognition work in the .omr project format
- Provides tools to inspect and correct recognition results
- Handles multi-step optical music recognition workflows
- Uses OCR support for text elements found in scores
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Audiveris is a legitimate open-source music recognition application. It is generally safe when obtained from the official project site or its official code distribution channels. As with other niche desktop tools, review the download source carefully and avoid third-party repackaging sites.
Recommendation: Keep Audiveris if you use it to convert or correct scanned sheet music. Remove it if you no longer work with optical music recognition or MusicXML conversion and do not need its project files.
Common paths
/Applications/Audiveris.app
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