Free? No.

I’ve tried them all. This is what I use at least once every week: ScanScore Pro 3

https://scan-score.com/en/?gad_source=1

Price starts at $9 with a free trial. You have choices of levels and pay more to have more staves.

PDF to Music works great when it works, but it’s more expensive and most of the time it aborts and claims the score is not a published score.

ScanScore Pro 3 can scan from your scanner or read an PDF. It always gives me something decent to start with, although none of these programs will read everything perfectly. You have a choice of correcting scan errors in the program, or exporting with the errors that you fix in your software of choice. The license renews each year but not automatically, so you have an opportunity to use it with a reasonably low price commitment.


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.