Audiveris
Audiveris is an optical music recognition app for converting printed sheet music images into editable digital score formats.
What is Audiveris?
Audiveris is an optical music recognition (OMR) application that helps users turn printed sheet music scans or images into computer-readable music notation. It is designed for musicians, music librarians, arrangers, educators, and researchers who need to digitize existing scores for playback, editing, or further notation work. The app converts recognized music into MusicXML and its own OMR project format, making it easier to continue editing in notation software such as MuseScore or Finale. Audiveris also includes an interactive graphical editor for reviewing and correcting recognition results when the automatic conversion needs cleanup. It is focused on printed Common Western Music Notation rather than handwritten scores, so it fits best into music digitization and score restoration workflows on desktop systems, including macOS.
Key features
- Convert printed sheet music images into digital notation
- Export recognized scores to MusicXML for use in notation editors
- Review and correct recognition results in an interactive editor
- Resume work from saved OMR project files
- Process scores for playback, transposition, and arrangement workflows
- Work with printed Common Western Music Notation on desktop systems
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Safety overview
Status: Use with caution
Audiveris is a legitimate music-notation tool, but the macOS installer is distributed unsigned, so macOS may block it as coming from an unidentified developer. That behavior matches the current installation instructions, yet it also means you should download it only from the official Audiveris site or its official project release pages and avoid third-party download sources. Review any file-opening access you grant to the app in the context of the scores and documents you use with it.
Recommendation: Keep Audiveris if you actively digitize printed sheet music or export scores into MusicXML for editing in other notation tools. If you do not use sheet music OCR, you can remove it without affecting macOS. Before opening a newly downloaded copy, confirm it came from the official project source so you do not bypass Gatekeeper for an untrusted build.
Common paths
/Applications/Audiveris.app
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