One of my scanning programs balks at anything that was not professionally published. Another will only read scores produced by the more popular music notation programs. Another reads only PDFs. That’s why I have several.

All of them produce errors. None reads hand-written music (although Presonus Notion 6 will do so on an iPad with Apple Pencil).

Best tip: make sure the paper is precisely aligned in the scanner; place it on the scanner platter yourself and don’t use the sheet feeder.


BIAB 2024 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 6.5 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6; Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus Studio 192, Presonus Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors